Keywords
XVI Century
Reales de Minas
Maps
Secret
Keywords plus
Minas-Spain
land colonization
Spain-Socioeconomics
Europe Historical Geography-Maps
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Abstract
For over 80 years the Spanish Crown managed to protect their interests by preventing the actual number of the Spanishheld mines “Real de Minas” in New Spain from appearing on maps published in Europe. The strategy worked untilsome of the people who were responsible for this ‘State Secret’ began to spread information about the location ofthese deposits that had contributed so much to the royal treasury.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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