Abstract

GONZALEZ GALEOTTI, Francisco Rodolfo. Traffic, trade and contraband in the Carrera de Campeche (1793-1821). Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2024, vol.45, n.178, pp.105-135.  Epub Apr 26, 2024. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v45i178.1069.

This study addresses the economic nature of the Carrera de Campeche, a series of routes that connected southern New Spain and Guatemala through amphibious routes using rivers and land roads. The economic origin and use of different routes that were used and how they were concatenated with the alcabalatorios soils of Tabasco, Chiapas, Oaxaca and the Guatemalan Highlands are analyzed. It shows how trade and smuggling were two sides of the same process in which local products and transatlantic imports complemented each other during the last years of the Spanish colonial period.

Keywords : Trade; contraband; Campeche; New Spain; Guatemala.