Impact of the Iberian Union on Southern Brazil: the case of Santa Catarina

Authors

  • Óscar Rico Bodelón Doctor en História de América por la Universidad de Salamanca. Investigador miembro del Grupo de Investigación BRASILHIS, centra su trabajo en las cuestiones de límites y en las expediciones militares españolas al sur de Brasil en el siglo XVIII

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3232/REB.2014.V1.N1.12

Keywords:

Iberian Union, Spanish and Portuguese colonial boundaries, South American colonization, Rio de la Plata and Paraguay Province, Santa Catarina Island

Abstract

When the Spaniards conquered Santa Catarina Island in 1777 it had already been a long time since they had lost their chances to control this important port along the route to the Rio de la Plata estuary. It was during the period of Iberian Union (1580-1640) when the Castilians abandoned their plans to propel an Atlantic outpost to shorten the communications between Spain and Asuncion, and also when the Bandeirantes in the Guairá region and the Portuguese merchants in Buenos Aires were operating. These three elements were to be decisive in the subsequent and definitive inclusion of the territories located south of the São Vicente captaincy in the Luso-Brazilian colonial context.

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Impact of the Iberian Union on Southern Brazil: the case of Santa Catarina. (2014). Revista De Estudios Brasileños, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.3232/REB.2014.V1.N1.12