Sistema social - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:56:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Sistema social - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Population of the cities of the Canary Islands between the 16th and 18th centuries https://historylab.es/population-of-the-cities-of-the-canary-islands-between-the-16th-and-18th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=population-of-the-cities-of-the-canary-islands-between-the-16th-and-18th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:31 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/poblacion-de-las-ciudades-de-canarias-entre-los-siglos-xvi-xviii/ Table showing the population of the Canary Islands cities between 1510 and 1802

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]]> 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.

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