San Luis de Alba
San Luis de Alba de Laicacota was a colonial mining seat (asiento de mina in Spanish) located near the city of Puno, Peru.[1][2] The town of San Luis de Alba was first recognized as an official asiento settlement in AD 1665.[1] San Luis de Alba was short-lived silver mining camp, located near rich silver veins and mines on the banks of the mountains of Cerro Negro Peque and Cerro Cancharani.[1][3] The most famous of these mines during the colonial period were Laicacota and Cancharani.[1]
The mining settlement is often known simply as "San Luis de Alba" or "Laicacota" or "Laycacota". The settlement was abandoned in AD 1668 following a series of uprisings that became known as the Laicacota Rebellion or Laicacota Conflict, and the majority of the population was moved to the nearby town of Puno.[1][4]
San Luis de Alba Settlement
After its official founding in AD 1665, San Luis de Alba's population expanded very rapidly. The population increased dramatically around the year 1667, when the rich silver vein at Laicacota was officially registered and worked.[1] In her doctoral research, Dr. Dodge describes San Luis de Alba as having three churches, a large town center, and large houses belonging to important Spanish officials and mine owners.[2]
Confusion with Nearby Silver Refineries
The title of "San Luis de Alba" has been erroneously attributed to other colonial period silver processing sites in the Puno region.[5]For example, a large silver refinery and processing site, known as Chorrillos Itapalluni,[6][7] has been incorrectly labeled as "San Luis de Alba" and the "Fuerte de San Luis de Alba".[8] In reality, Chorrillos Itapalluni was located 2 km west of San Luis de Alba and was an industrial processing site, not a mining camp.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Domínguez, Nicanor (2006). Rebels of Laicacota: Spaniards, Indians, and Andean Mestizos in Southern Peru During the Mid-Colonial Crisis of 1650-1680. Urbana-Champaign: PhD Dissertation. University of Indiana.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dodge, Meredith (1984). Silver Mining and Social Conflict in Seventeenth- Century Peru: The War of the Nations in Laicacota, 1665-1667. Albuquerque, NM: PhD Dissertation, University of New Mexico.
- ↑ Domínguez, Nicanor (2017). Aproximaciones a la Historia de Puno y del Altiplano (in Spanish). Puno, Peru: Serie: Puno Esencial 3. Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura de Puno. Industria Gráfica Altiplano E.I.R.L.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Basadre, Jorge (1945). El Conde de Lemos y Su Tiempo: Bosquejo de una Evocación y una Interpretación del Perú a Fines del Siglo 17 (in Spanish). Lima, Peru.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kennedy, Sarah (2021). Marginalized Labor in Colonial Silver Refining: Reconstructing Power and Identity in Colonial Peru (1600-1800 AD). Pittsburgh, PA: Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.
- ↑ Lechtman, Heather (1976). "A Metallurgical Site Survey in the Peruvian Andes". Journal of Field Archaeology. 3: 1–42.
- ↑ Schultze, Carol (2008). The Role of Silver Ore Reduction in Tiwanaku State Expansion into Puno Bay, Peru. Los Angeles: PhD Dissertation, UCLA.
- ↑ CTAR (1999). Puesta en Valor del Centro Histórico Colonial San Luis del Alba. Estudio Realizado Por El Consejo De Administración Regional Puno (in Spanish). Puno, Peru: Publicación de Proyecto Especial Binacional Lago Titicaca (PELT).
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