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                    <text>Centering the margins: Capitalism and the Pacific World in
mid-nineteenth century Arequipa
Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros
Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
mbozacua@syr.edu
Abstract
Trade policy and regulation were central to the emergent Peruvian state
(ca. 1821-1879). The intersection of trade and geopolitical
reconfigurations warranted the transition from “Spanish lake” to Pacific
World in the nineteenth century. In this paper I examine the rise of the
Pacific World from its margin of the Arequipa coast, emphasizing the
effects of capitalism through the lens of maritime cultural landscapes.
After independence (1821-1824), new ports were established; operation
of certain coves sanctioned; and extractive activities shaped the region.
The ports on the Arequipa coast supplied markets across the Andean
south and Bolivia, and were a necessary and desired stop for North
Atlantic ships sailing the Pacific. The Peruvian and Arequipa governments
actively incorporated the coast into the inland urban markets of Cuzco,
Moquegua, Puno, and the largest market, the city of Arequipa. Their
efforts included the construction of roads and, way stations, and piers,
thus providing infrastructural support to the regional trade and efforts
against contraband. The economic networks that operated throughout
here encompassed a vast portion of the population in different degrees of
legitimacy. This region was strategic for the mercantile classes across the
Andean south, the national government and foreign dignitaries in charge
of the Peruvian trade. Contention among them arose from the regulation
of trade, weighing on the power balance between the new Peruvian state,
its citizens, and foreign powers. Data collected from archaeological and
historical sources are combined to understand how these engagements
and the pulses of capitalism impacted the Arequipa maritime cultural
landscape from a multiscalar perspective. Close examination of
globalizing processes reveals that the expansion of capitalism depended
heavily on the transformations and continuities that the former had in small
places and marginal areas, and that the imposition of a globalized market
was accompanied by its involvement in local economies.
Key words: Spain, Peru, globalisation, capitalism

�In this paper, I employ a maritime cultural landscape perspective to model
the conditions that paved the way for the expansion of the Pacific World
and its impact on post-Colonial Peru. Trade was key to states that
emerged from former Spanish colonies on the eastern Pacific (18211879). Trade also became an articulation of neocolonial relations North
Atlantic powers enforced over the emergent states. Britain was most
prominent, but France, Italy, Belgium, the German states, and the United
States also developed economic interests in the region (Blaufarb 2007;
Condori 2014). Struggles that ensued along the western South American
coast shaped the Pacific World, spurred by a new model of empire, one
reliant on commercial dependence, free trade, and wage labor, and
enforced with a mighty Pacific fleet (Blaufarb 2007, 761; Miller 1993). In
Peru, the southern trade created a multiscalar margin on the coast of
Arequipa: local, regional, national and global processes intersected to
shape early Republican geopolitics. The dynamics of the Pacific world
should be examined through a multi-scalar analysis of its margins to
understand the ‘local contextualities’ (Giddens 1991, 22) that constituted
it.
Natural conditions and the vast distance from the coast to the city of
Arequipa hampered state efforts to penetrate the region, tilting the power
balance away from the national government. Economically, Arequipa
channeled most of the merchandise in and out of the Andean south,
including commodities of great importance to North Atlantic powers: wool,
quinine tree bark, and metals (Condori 2014). Furthermore, this region
experienced the fastest economic recovery in the country following
independence, and a thriving export economy since the mid 1820s, a
phenomenon possible due to the efforts of the southern Andean elites.
The ports of the south became loci of contention between different interest

�groups, particularly foreign dignitaries and local authorities. By
reconstructing the maritime cultural landscape of Arequipa, a multi-scalar
perspective of global politics, the expansion of capitalism, and the growing
pains of the Peruvian post-Colonial state is gained.
Historical background
The first decades after independence were riddled with internal strife
caused by military strongmen known as caudillos. Caudillos engaged in
open warfare from their regional bastions, relying on local support that
was elusive to the central Peruvian government, and spread chaos across
the country (Aljovín de Losada 2003; Gootenberg 1989; Jacobsen 1993;
Larson 2004; Lynch 1992). Between the declaration of independence in
1821 and the early 1850s, the presence of a unified Peruvian state is
debatable at best. Ramón Castilla, another military leader, consolidated
the rule of Lima, pacified regional caudillos, engaged civil elites and
institutions, and inaugurated a period of state building that lasted until the
1860s (Gootenberg 1989a; Lynch 1992). Slowly, liberal economic ideas
gained broad acceptance among the ruling classes and guided aspects
of the national economy to look outward and reject protectionist measures
(Contreras Carranza 2011; Gootenberg 2013, 1989a; Larson 2004). The
first export boom cycle of the national era, guano, began to unravel, and
with it the rise of a plutocratic liberal state (Contreras Carranza 2011;
Gootenberg 2013, 1989a; Cushman 2014).
The transition towards a national economy after independence
emphasized regional ties. In Arequipa, this meant an expansion of the
wool trade, which connected the city of Arequipa to its mountainous
hinterland, Puno, and Cusco (Fig. 1); silver, copper, wine, and pisco were
also produced and exported (Condori 2010, 2014; Gootenberg 1989;
Brown 1986; Rice 2012). Arequipa elites, traditionally a landed and

�mercantile aristocracy, supported liberal policies that put them at odds
with the politically powerful protectionist merchant guild of Lima (Armas
Asín 2011; Mazzeo de Vivó 2006; Gootenberg 1989). The guild
repeatedly succeeded in imposing their agenda, creating one of the most
protectionist economies in the region.
The early Republican period in Arequipa was marked by liberal ideologies
championing individual liberties and free trade, and distancing Lima as the
center of Peruvian power (Bonilla 1974; Condori 2010, 2014; Contreras
and Glave Testino 2002; Gootenberg 1989). The south opposed
protectionist measures closing all ports but Callao to international trade
(Gootenberg 1999, 30). An increase in regional exports especially to
British merchants encouraged a cautious support for liberal causes. Some
supported a complete ban of imported (French) wines, (North American)
coarse textiles, and other goods that competed with local products. British
imports became common in other southern markets, like Cusco, where
liberal causes slowly began to gain favor, and contributed to the
expansion of the Arequipa sphere (Chambers 1999; Condori 2014;
Gootenberg 1989). Generally, the south was more interested in seceding
rather than taking over or moving the capital to Arequipa (Gootenberg
1989). Armed revolts sprouted across the region through this period.
Arequipa’s maritime cultural landscape, 1821-1879
The mercantile basis of the southern economy during the colonial period
continued in the first decades after independence, promoting an early
intersectional support for free trade reforms across the Andean south
(Gootenberg 1999, 30) (Fig. 2). After independence, efforts for the
revitalization of the southern economy arose from the Arequipa social and
political elites. Improvements that “neared it [the city of Arequipa] to the
coast”1 figured prominently. Natural conditions along the Arequipa coast

�make overland travel extremely difficult: deep ravines and narrow valleys
crisscross large expanses of deserts (Figs. 1-2). Sea navigation also
presented difficulties given the rough tides and unfavorable conditions
along the coast, but was cheaper and faster than land traffic. Routes from
the city to the sea took at least two or three days, and longer for caravans,
making necessary the establishment of way stations. The inauguration of
the Arequipa railroad in 1871 fulfilled the dreams of ocean proximity (Fig.
2). Roads and way stations were built by local governments or assigned
Peruvians; New York-born capitalist Henry Meiggs built the railroad.
Small colonial ports remained in use after independence, and new ones
were habilitated by the national government for local trade in coves along
the coast (Monsalve 2011). All sites faced the hurdles of a desert location,
mainly difficulties procuring water and foodstuffs, which were hauled from
afar or imported. Earthquakes, tsunamis and tides caused damages to the
ports regularly. Port captainships faced severe constraints for the exercise
of their functions, as did offices across the country. Captains often decried
the inability of their offices to conduct their functions due to the lack of
boats, personnel, money and food for the personnel (numerous examples
can be found across AHM Serie Capitanías). Further issues arose from
the actions of foreign vice-consuls, particularly the British, who exercised
their influence routinely, sanctioning blockades and military action against
the local community and its authorities, and otherwise were involved in
unstable national politics2. Ships calling on Islay, Arica and Mollendo
connected the Andean south to Liverpool, Bordeaux, Le Havre, Rio de
Janeiro, Valparaíso, Cobija, Guayaquil and most Peruvian seaports. Arica
and Islay were the first Peruvian ports visited by the British Pacific steamer
line.

�The rest of this section provides a brief overview of the coast from 18211879. This includes ports, coves habilitated for trade, and the formation of
a series of networks for the exploitation of guano. The amount of
commodities trafficked increased, the number of foreign officers at these
ports grew, and foreign military presence became more common.
Contemporaneously, habilitated coves served the southern economy for
the fast transit of goods from valleys to ports and other coves, and were
central to the southern guano economies.
Quilca
Quilca serviced the city of Arequipa as its main port at the time of
independence (Fig. 2). Its location and conditions required ships calling to
moor a mile south of the cove (Hidrográfica 1879). All loading and offloading had to be done with boats across rough waters before entering
the cove. The cove itself is guarded and with calm waters (Stiglich 1918),
but the unpredictable exterior conditions of the sea made the anchorage
unsafe, and ships were lost suddenly and quickly3. Quilca also serviced
the city of Camaná. During this period, the customs house was located in
the city of Arequipa, further complicating regional and local maritime trade
in foreign goods. This arrangement delayed the arrival of merchandise to
their destination markets, and provided ample opportunity for smuggling.
The difficult conditions persuaded the government to move the location of
the region’s primary port to the cove of Islay (1826), and the cove of Quilca
was mostly abandoned after that4.
Islay
The trade through Quilca was re-channeled to cove of Islay in 1826 (Fig.
2). A pier, customs house and system to provide the settlement with water
were promptly constructed. A priest was deployed here in 1827 to service

�the port’s growing population5. While Islay has better sea conditions than
Quilca, transportation to the city demanded traversing the ample desert
east of the port, and many deep and dry ravines that separate city and
sea. New roads and way stations between the port and Arequipa were
built several times in the mid-nineteenth century.
Islay’s population reached the thousands by the 1830s. The port
channeled most of the Arequipa trade, as well as imports and exports to
and from Cuzco and Puno. Foreign trading houses and dignitaries
established in Arequipa also established branches in Islay starting the
1820s. The port town, located three hundred feet above the sea on a rocky
promenade, was protected against seaquakes that regularly hit the region.
Furthermore, the cove was already economically important for the region,
as it has served as the locus of guano extraction and distribution for
communities in the Arequipa and Cuzco hinterlands (Figs. 1-2). Guano
extraction took place in the Alvizuri and La Fuente islands, and dealings
were moved to nearby Matarani after the establishment of the port.
Completion of the Arequipa railroad signaled the end for Islay. Mollendo
was given the role of main port in 1871. The customs house, naval offices,
and consulates moved soon thereafter, and it was ordered that those who
remained there moved to Mollendo that same year.
Mollendo
Mollendo became the main port of Arequipa in 1871, with the railroad
connecting the port with Arequipa, Puno and Cuzco. Its natural capacity
for receiving small boats only required early infrastructural efforts at the
port (García y García, 45) (Fig. 1). A breakwater connected the shore with
Ponce Island. A new system of running water was inaugurated in 1873,
which required transporting water from the vicinity of the city of Arequipa,

�on what was lauded as a “the greatest work of its kind in the world”.6 A
light was raised on the promontory by the beach in the evenings to
facilitate nocturnal operations and navigation.
The move from Islay was facilitated by its proximity (12 km). Buildings had
been erected in wood on the bedrock of Islay, and were disassembled and
later reassembled in Mollendo. Some of these buildings, including the
customs house that was transported from Islay to Mollendo, remain in
place, and Mollendo is still the seat of a Navy office.
Arica
Arica was the most important southern port at the end of the colonial
period (Fig. 1). A pier and customhouse were built in 1827. Upon the
establishment of the department of Moquegua in 1857, Arica was
separated from Arequipa. Its importance for the southern trade continued.
Water was easily accessible from wells and the nearby Azapa valley,
where foodstuffs were procured. Arica was connected to the nearby city
of Tacna by railroad, inaugurated in 1856. Navigation was comparatively
easy, although tides often brought labors to a halt between June and
August (García y García 1863).

�Fig.1: Peru, according to Mariano Paz Soldan’s 1867 map. Satellite
imagery acquired through OpenLayers plugin for QGIS.
Arica channeled a significant amount of the imports destined to markets
across Cuzco, Puno and Bolivia. A Bolivian port was established at Cobija
in 1825, but it failed to challenge the importance of Arica to the Bolivian
trade. The difficulty, time and cost of overland transportation from Arica to
upland Bolivian cities were significantly lower than from Cobija7 (Fig. 1).
Iquique
A port was established in Iquique in 1827 to support mineral extraction
from the nearby mines8 (Figs. 1-2). Establishing the port proved to be
difficult. No fresh water, underground or otherwise, can be found in
Iquique. Fresh water was eventually made available through processing
seawater in condensation machines. Supply of the port depended
exclusively on imported foodstuffs. Extractive activities in the vicinity of
the port provided the basis for its growth, and population had reached
5000 by the 1860s (García y García). Iquique also channeled the guano
trade from the Guaneras del Sur, a series of islands and cliffs in the far
south where guano was extracted. The discovery and exploitation of

�saltpeter accelerated the growth of the port and the establishment of more
settlements and infrastructure (particularly railroads). Saltpeter, as
important for its fertilizing properties as guano, was the main export of the
port by the 1860s. Iquique became the capital of the Department of
Tarapaca when the latter was separated from Moquegua in 1878.
Chala
A port captainship was established in Chala in 1850 (Figs. 1-2). Its
purpose was to channel products from nearby provinces of Arequipa, and
those from neighboring Cuzco and Ayacucho. Conditions at sea
prevented this objective from being fully realized. Constant roughness of
the sea and unrelenting damages and losses of infrastructure hindered
operations9. Much of the regional trade continued to be channeled through
Islay and Mollendo.
Habilitated coves
The rough shores of Arequipa are littered with small coves. These coastal
nooks represented important nodes in economic networks that spread
throughout the south, and were strategic for military operations during the
tumultuous first years of the Republic. Some of the coves were habilitated
for trade in local and national commodities, and as a way to speed
transportation of agricultural products from different points along the
littoral (Fig. 2). Given the difficult natural conditions for overland travel
along coastal Arequipa, the use of these coves ameliorated transportation
times and costs.

�Fig. 2: Southern Peru. Peruvian national border following Paz Soldan
(1867). Satellite imagery acquired through OpenLayers plugin for QGIS.

Local populations at many of these coves were likely descendants of the
ethnic group known in colonial documents as camanchacas. These
coastal fishermen are poorly recorded in the ethnohistorical record and
unknown archaeologically. What is known is that they were the only group
indigenous to the coves and beaches from Arequipa throughout the
Atacama Desert; their numbers in colonial grants were the lowest in the
region; and that they went out to sea in boats made of sea lion skins.
Documentary records show that this kind of boat continued in use along
the coast from Chala to Iquique until the beginning of the twentieth century
(Stiglich 1918). Interestingly, records from Camaná show that fishermen
from Sechura serviced the valley10. These northerners used wooden rafts
(balsas de palo), which continue to be used by fishermen in the Tambo
valley today (Valdivia Ochoa 2017, personal communication). The spread

�and continuity of this northern tradition along the Arequipa coast remains
to be elucidated.
Highland groups from across Arequipa, Cuzco and Puno were also
present at the coast; their engagements with camanchaca groups remain
unclear. These highland groups descended onto the coast to put their
herds to pasture in lomas (seasonal forests), collect seaweed, and extract
guano from the islands for use in cultivation elsewhere. These practices
predate the imposition of the Spanish colonial system, and guano
remained an important commodity throughout the Andean south during
the period under study11. These dynamics created complexes of
extraction, collection and distribution of guano. Fertilizer extracted from
coastal Arequipa was moved inland across the south, and regional
extraction was complemented with imports from Chincha that were
brought to Islay and Quilca12. Guano complexes were located in Islay,
Cocotea, Lomas and Arantas (Fig. 2).
Cocotea
The Cocotea complex is located 30 km southeast of the Tambo valley.
The cove was first habilitated for the traffic of guano inland in 182813; it
appears in mid-nineteenth century trade laws as a third-tier port or
“habilitated cove”. Although closer to Islay, it depended on certain
functions from Arica offices (Paz Soldan 1877). The beach at Pacay is
very narrow and littered with rocks, conditions that favored Cocotea for
use in port operations. Cocotea also presents a better anchorage. Sea
traffic scared away the birds in the area, and in 1851 extraction was
restricted to the months of November and April in order to allow birds to
nest undisturbed (Ortiz 1852).

�Archaeological remains and documentary evidence provide insight into
the establishment and use of a guano-centered complex at Cocotea (Fig.
3). The population of the complex was small, only a few hundred semipermanently there14, who depended on the nearby Tambo valley for
provisioning. Limited water could be found in Cocotea. Extraction was
done at the islands of Jesús, La Mansa and Margarita. Once extracted,
guano was stored in platforms near the beach at Pacay; platforms near
the shore of Cocotea likely served a similar function. The extant
architectural features across the complex consist of buildings of roughly
cut fieldstones laid without mortar, sometimes constructed on artificial
terraces. At present, function for these buildings has been attributed to
housing operatives and herds in the Cocotea ravine, as well as the
storage of guano and other goods in both Cocotea and Pacay. Surface
artifacts in Cocotea include imported manufacture, local low-fired
earthenwares, and animal and shell remains. All dateable artifacts are
consistent with a mid-19th century occupation. Surface materials were
scarce in Pacay.

�Fig. 3: Cocotea complex. Satellite imagery acquired through
OpenLayers plugin for QGIS.

Discussion and conclusion
Given the central role of trade commodity in the nineteenth century global
economy and the traditional reliance of the Andean southern economy on
trade, the coast takes a preeminent role. No regional or international trade
could take place without maritime ports. The geopolitical reconfigurations
of the nineteenth century across the Pacific basin arose in good measure
as a result of the capitalist orientation of North Atlantic powers. Islay and
Arica were required stops along the way for steamers and sailboats
regularly crossing the Atlantic to the Pacific to Asia, and back.
Entanglements between involved interest groups impacted local
conditions, national policies and international relations.
As the Pacific world spread and established itself across the Peruvian
Pacific, private foreign investors provided certain maritime services,

�particularly the transport of passengers, mail and cargo. In contrast, local
governments and Peruvian citizens provided the construction and
maintenance of roads and way stations, respectively. During their visits,
foreign ships would also deliver luxury and staple imports, and take with
them products indispensable for the reification of the mid-nineteenth
century world order, including: wool destined to British looms, quinine tree
bark for pharmaceutical products that aided in the expansion of European
powers into malaria-ridden areas, and silver and copper to stimulate the
world economy. Operations were secured by force, with British and
French warships closely navigating the South American shores. Southern
ports were not unique for being blockaded; these took place in Callao, the
Chincha islands, and other northern ports. In many cases, the reason for
these blockades directly involved trade and traders. These military actions
disregarded international law and intervened in local conflicts, particularly
during revolutions, uprisings and other political conflicts that arose in Peru
between 1821 and 1879. A glaring exception to visitors on the Arequipa
coast were North American whaling boats: while their presence is noted
in port records from Callao and the northern port of Paita, they are
conspicuously absent from Islay, Mollendo, Arica and Iquique records.
The operation of southern ports raised other international questions as
well. The case of Arica highlights both the mutual integration of Bolivia
and the Peruvian south, and the issues that arose from the regulation of
trade with the neighboring country. The inauguration of the Bolivian port
at Cobija in 1825 does not seem to have affected the flow of goods
destined for Bolivia through Arica. International conflicts and several
treatises emerged from this situation. The Bolivian trade through Arica,
and Tacna en route to Bolivia, encouraged the construction of the Arica-

�Tacna railroad in addition to the establishment of small customhouses and
checkpoints between the port and the border.
Small-scale conditions in the southern coast heavily affected the
processes of state formation undergone by the emergent Republic of
Peru. Struggles between the Lima and Arequipa mercantile elites cannot
be explained without considering their entanglements with foreign traders
based in Peru. Lima’s merchant guild was directly responsible for
overthrowing regimes during the first years of the Republic with the stated
purpose of blocking liberal economic policies. Early liberal trends across
the south, particularly at the city of Arequipa, encouraged social unrest in
the region and promoted improvement projects in the southern ports.
Indeed, a force just as mighty as Lima’s merchant guild were the citizens
of the city of Arequipa whom, in allegiance with groups in Moquegua and
Tacna, defended democratic values and its economic sequitur, liberalism,
through newspaper editorials, public demonstrations, and armed action.
Peace, the deciding factor for the definitive establishment of the state in
the Peruvian Republic, was only possible after the defeat and death of
most caudillos. Preliminary analysis of port records suggests a sustained
growth of international trade through these ports at times of peace.
Inherently tied to the peace process was the trend towards a liberal,
globally oriented national trade economy that ultimately consolidated the
Peruvian state, an endeavor that escaped nationalist military leaders
before the 1850s (Gootenberg 1989).
The spread of influence of Arequipa City, particularly in regards to
economic dogma, grew consistently during the mid-nineteenth century,
and gave rise to the Andean south (Flores Galindo 1977). The political
separation of Moquegua did not affect the formation of this regional
bastion. The geographical and economic distance of the Guaneras del

�Sur from Arequipa, the interest of the national government in the
exploitation of guano and saltpeter in the region, and the later loss of the
southernmost strip of Peru (including Arica and Iquique) to Chile in the
Ancon Treaty of 1883, definitively shaped the south in Arequipa-centric
terms.
Two interconnected trends can be recognized from the changes in the
Arequipa maritime cultural landscape. First, the establishment of ports
and habitation of coves for trade in increasing numbers throughout the
period of 1821-1879. These “new” ports built on long-standing economic
traditions connected the Pacific to places as far as eastern Cuzco and the
Titicaca basin. Second, the construction of roads, way stations and
railroads that facilitated trade and sought to bring the city of Arequipa
closer to the coast. These efforts fall in line with the early outward look of
the southern economy and its entanglements, particularly with British
traders. Unsurprisingly, investments in infrastructure across Arequipa and
the south at large originated from regional governments more often than
from Lima. These improvements were the logical answer to the needs of
the emerging southern trade at the beginning of the Republic. The
founding of Islay, given the inadequacy of the port at Quilca and its later
move to Mollendo, the final point of the railroad, highlights this. While
Arequipa began to rise early in the Republic as the center of the Andean
south, it only did so by facilitating trade across the region through its ports.
The traditional and intersectional reliance on trade across the south
created the conditions for the economic recovery of the region after the
wars of independence, and for part of the political instability in the country
at the beginning of the Republic.
Importantly, trends in the Arequipa region differed from others in the
country during the guano boom years. The use of guano was widespread

�across southern agricultural areas from coast to uplands, and
consumption of the dung extracted from coastal Arequipa remained in
Arequipa. Some guano from Chincha was also being taken to Islay and
Quilca. Whether this was due to reduced guano availability because of
damage to the birds’ nesting grounds, excessive sea traffic and human
presence or because extraction was constrained otherwise remains to be
elucidated. At the same time, guano extracted from the islands of
Chincha, Guañape and the Guaneras del Sur was being exported in
formidable amounts (Figs. 1-2).
The lens of maritime cultural landscapes provides a unique perspective of
the multiple forces that impacted the Arequipa coast in the mid-nineteenth
century. These were affected by broad scale processes, such as the
expansion of free trade capitalism across the Pacific basin, the rise of
post-Colonial Latin American states, and the formation of a regional
bastion in the Andean south.
Endnotes
1

El Registro Municipal Num 18 p. 1, 24 Set 1859. Biblioteca Nacional del
Perú, Hemeroteca (Microfilms)
2

Noticias de Islay, in El Rejenerador Num 8 p. 1, 26 nov 1856.
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, Hemeroteca (Microfilms); Comunicación
del Cónsul SMB al General Pardo de Zela, in El Republicano Vol. 5 N.
25 p. 5, 5 jun 1830. Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, Hemeroteca
(Microfilms)
3

El Republicano Num 45 p. 196, 30 Set 1826. Biblioteca Nacional del
Perú, Hemeroteca (Microfilms)
4

Archivo Histórico de Marina, Serie Capitanía Islay 1842, f. 7 En las
caletas de Quilca y Cocotea no tienen habitantes
5

Gutiérrez de la Fuenta, Antonio, Comunicación del Ex-Prefecto a la
Junta Departamental, in: El Republicano Tomo 4 N. 32 p. 4, 8 ago 1829.
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, Hemeroteca (Microfilms)

�6

The Peruvian Evening Chronicle Vol. 1 N. 12 p. 2, 28 Apr 1873.
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, Hemeroteca (Microfilms)
7

El Republicano N. 59 p. 250-252, 6 Ene 1827. Biblioteca Nacional del
Perú, Hemeroteca (Microfilms); (Díaz Araya et al. 2012)
8

Decreto del Ministerio de Hacienda, Lima 6 de Setiembre de 1827, in
El Republicano N. 97 p. 117 (6 Oct 1827). Biblioteca Nacional del Perú,
Hemeroteca (Microfilms).
9
Many examples of this can be found in at the Archivo Histórico de
Marina, Serie Capitanías, Chala (C25.C1-C7).
10

Archivo Histórico de Marina, Serie Capitanías, Camaná, 1862, f. 4
“Sobre balseros de Sechura”
11
Archivo Histórico Regional de Arequipa, Serie Prefectura, Legajo 19
(1851-1858), Contrata de Barqueros del Huano (25 jul 1851).
(Hidrográfica 1879; Stiglich 1918)
12

Entradas y salidas del Puerto de Islay, in La Bolsa Year 1 N. 33 p. 1,
25 Set 1860
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El Republicano N. 39 p. 1, 27 Set 1828. Biblioteca Nacional del Perú,
Hemeroteca (Microfilms)
14

Archivo Histórico de Marina, Serie Capitanía Islay 1842, f.7 En las
caletas de Quilca y Cocotea no tienen habitantes.
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�Biography
Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros is a PhD candidate in the Department of
Anthropology at Syracuse University, where she specializes in historical
archaeology. Her dissertation research focuses on the impact that
processes of formation of the Peruvian state and the expansion of
capitalism had on the Arequipa coast. She has conducted
archaeological and bioarchaeological research across Peru and the
United States. Maria Fernanda is also an affiliate researcher at the
Peruvian Center for Maritime and Underwater Archaeology (CPAMS).

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