El envío de colonos canarios a la costa centroamericana de Los Mosquitos a finales del Siglo XVIII
- Morales Padrón, Francisco (coord.)
Publisher: Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria
ISBN: 978-84-8103-650-3
Year of publication: 2012
Pages: 52-65
Congress: Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana (19. 2010. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This paper deals with the planning and the start of an expedition sent in 1787 from the Canary Islands to Central America, specifically to the Miskito Coast, in order to people that area with 60 families coming from various places of the archipelago. The arrival of the colonists was considered necessary to assert Spanish sovereignty and to settle a territory the English used to control until that moment.