Los colonos de Navas de Tolosa en Sierra Morena: los primeros pasos de una nueva población agrícola en el siglo XVIII

In 1767 the foundation of Nuevas Poblaciones begins, a project Spanish monarchy that transformed several depopulated areas Sierra Morena and lower Andalusia into agricultural colonies under protection charter known as Fuero de las Poblaciones. The was based on foreigners Spaniards, proposing different social economic organization than rest Hispanic Monarchy until 1835. study colonists Navas Tolosa parishioners has helped us understand how process creation development these was, transforming wastelands farmland. Through archival documentation historical cartography combined with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) we have reconstructed grid farmlands from 1770, 1774 1781, analyzing nationality settlers, situation their land, concentration dispersion plots or presence woman owner.