The urban hierarchy of the Canary Islands is greatly influenced by the development of the economic and urban structure, marking the terrain according to the strategic needs of the islands as a whole. The city is established in the places where the representative organs of power decide to settle: the Crown, the Church and the population.
It can be seen in the resource how, from the 17th century onwards, the situation in the Canary Islands changed, with the predominance of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria shifting towards the socio-economic take-off of Tenerife and La Palma. A large number of foreign merchants settled in both, establishing their estates to export wine and manufactured products to America.
Despite this growth, Santa Cruz de La Palma saw its privileged position assured by the settlement of the power groups, controlling from there a large part of the wealth that circulated around the islands in those years.
Collection: Statistics
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVI, XVII, XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University, Postgraduate
Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/4776
Resource type: Statistics
Format: Table
Source: Quintana, P. C. (1997). "La jerarquía y el sistema urbano de Canarias durante el Antiguo Régimen", en Studia historica. Historia moderna, nº 17, p. 202.
Language: Spanish
Date: 1997
Owner: Roberto José Alcalde López (Modernalia)
Copyright: ©Studia historica. Historia moderna ©Pedro C. Quintana Andrés
Abstract: Table showing the population of the Canary Islands cities between 1510 and 1802
Tags
Cabildo catedralicioComerciantes extranjerosIslas CanariasJerarquía urbanaManufacturasOligarquía localSiglo XVISiglo XVIISiglo XVIIISistema social
