Abstract

RAMIREZ MENDEZ, LUIS ALBERTO. The Water Challenge of the Torondoy, Castro or San Pedro and Mojaján or Culebra Rivers in the South of Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela) 17th-18th Centuries. Front. hist. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.2, pp.118-149. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.449.

The research focuses on describing and analyzing the changes in the riverbeds of the Torondoy, Castro or San Pedro and Mojaján or Culebra rivers, in the south of Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), their periodic floods and the disaster caused by the seismic movements of 1673 and 1674, its aftermath, the subsequent landslide and successive overflows experienced during the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century whose effects impacted their respective valleys as their population, events that constitute slow and sudden impact. It also describes the process of adaptation and response of these communities to these terrible events, or their resilience. The study was carried out on the collection of documentary and cartographic information on the indicated topics, the modifications in the water systems, the earthquake, the landslide, and its effects and is presented in figures.

Keywords : vulnerability; disasters; geohistory; south of Lake Maracaibo; floods; earthquakes; landslide; environmental history.

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