page_title: Colonial Chile
section_title: Mining
hierarchical_section_title: Colonial Chile / Economy / Mining
caption_attribution_description: Español: De Ulloa, Antonio y Jorge Juan. Relación Histórica del Viaje a la América Meridional, hecho de Orden de Su Majestad Católica para medir algunos Grados de Meridiano Terrestre, y venir por ellos en conocimiento de la verdadera Figura y Magnitud de la Tierra, con otras varias Observaciones Astronómicas y Físicas. Por Don Jorge Juan Comendador de Aliaga, en la Orden de San Juan, Socio correspondiente de la Real Academia de las Ciencias de París y Don Antonio de Ulloa de la Real Sociedad de Londres: ambos Capitanes de Fragata de la Real Armada. Segunda Parte / Tomo II. Impresa por la Orden del Rey Nuestro Señor en Madrid por Antonio Marín, Año de MCDDXLVIII (1748). Diapositiva de Consulta y acceso publico cuya información fue investigada de un libro y/o ejemplar de revisión custodiado en los Fondos Bibliográficos (Sección Siglo XVIII o Etapa Colonial) del Archivo Histórico del Guayas; Guayaquil, Ecuador
context_page_description: In Chilean historiography, Colonial Chile is the period from 1600 to 1810, beginning with the Destruction of the Seven Cities and ending with the onset of the Chilean War of Independence. During this time the Chilean heartland was ruled by Captaincy General of Chile. The period was characterized by a lengthy conflict between Spaniards and native Mapuches known as the Arauco War. Colonial society was divided in distinct groups including Peninsulars, Criollos, Mestizos, Indians and Black people.
  Relative to other Spanish colonies Chile was a "poor and dangerous" place.
context_section_description: Compared to the 16th and 18th centuries Chilean mining activity in the 17th century was very limited. Chile saw an unprecedented revival of its mining activity in the 18th century with annual gold production rising from 400 to 1000 kg over the course of the century and the silver annual production rising from 1000 to 5000 kg in the same interval.
caption: 1744 engraving published in Relación histórica del viaje a la América meridional. The image shows cattle in the Chilean countryside including a square for cattle slaughter.
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