Spanish America, Vol. 2 (of 2)Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir
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Spanish America, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir
Latin America -- Description and travel; Latin America -- History
|Villa del Principe |Cuba |21 17 0 N.| 77 45 0 | |
|Villa Rica |La Plata |25 48 0 S.| 56 31 0 |3000. |
| | | | | |
|Xalapa |New Spain |19 30 8 N.| 96 54 45 |13,000. |
|Xagua, Boca de |Cuba | - - - | 80 34 7 | |
|Xuxui |La Plata |23 5 0 S | 66 2 0 | |
To this table it will not be uninteresting to add a summary of the
population, &c., of the governments of Spanish America.
Inhabitants. Inhabitants.
NEW SPAIN 6,500,000, of which its capital, MEXICO, has 137,000
GUATIMALA 1,200,000, GUATIMALA 19,000
CUBA 550,000, HAVANNAH 25,000
PUERTO RICO 136,000, PUERTO RICO, very populous.
{ SAN AUGUSTIN, has 4000
FLORIDAS uncertain, { PENSACOLA.
{ SANTA FÉ DE }
NEW GRANADA 1,800,000, { BOGOTA } 30,000
CARACCAS 900,000, CARACCAS 20,000
PERU 1,300,000, LIMA 54,000
CHILI 800,000, SANTIAGO 36,000
BUENOS AYRES} 1,100,000, BUENOS AYRES 60,000
or LA PLATA}
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Making 14,286,000.
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To which may be added 50,000 more for Cuba, as according to the latest
enquiries that island possesses a population of 600,000 souls; thus
there will be a total known population of 14,336,000, and allowing for
the inhabitants of the Floridas, and the unnumbered Indians of the
kingdom of La Plata, the actual number of persons existing under the
government of Spain in the Americas, will not fall short of fifteen
millions, while the Portuguese subjects in BRAZIL amount only to
3,300,000, of whom one million and a half are negroes, one million are
Indians and the rest whites.
Of the above total of 14,336,000 souls, there are 3,000,000 whites born
in the country, 200,000 Europeans, and the remaining 11,136,000 are
Indians, negroes and mixed races, or castes, of which the Indians bear
by far the greater proportion, the negroes in Caraccas amounting to
54,000, in Cuba to 212,000; the other states having comparatively very
few slaves.
The spaces which this mass of people occupy, in the different
governments, have been thus calculated:
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