Keywords
El Dorado
independence
maritorio
geographical thought
imaginaries
circumnavigation
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Abstract
This paper makes an attempt for reading then maritime and fluvial adventures' memoirs of some adventurers and mercenaries that were part of the feat of Independence next to Bolivar. This route allows us to show some liberation campaign enemies' notes, such as the military man Pablo Morillo, that offer an interesting geographical perspective. The reading of these memoirs makes it possible to rebuild some mystical ideas, as El Dorado — reference whereby this region was known during the colonial time—, and highlight the personal experience of narrators with the Orinoco river landscape and its rich connections.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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