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This article analizes, characterizes and contextualizes the establishment of the "Consulado de Comerciantes" of Cartagena in 1795. The Consulate is interpreted as an "axis of power" during New Granada's Independence struggle. The autor studies the Consulate from the perspective of political geography and establishes, in a parallel fashion, a relationship between science and policy. The public works projects of Cartagena, with clear regional priorities, clashed with the projects of the commercial and scientific class in the capital, Santafé de Bogotá. The article is based on the published informe (report) of the Consulate at Cartagena, which dealt with the healt of the colonial economy in the Vice Royalty.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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