Floridablanca (Spanish settlement)
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The Spanish settlement “Nueva Poblacion y Fuerte de Floridablanca” was established in San Julian Bay in 1780 and abandoned four years later. At present, this settlement is an archaeological site situated in Santa Cruz Province (Lat S. 49° 16´38´´ Long W. 67° 51´22´´).
[edit] History
A little village named "Nueva Colonia y Fuerte de Floridablanca" was settled in the frame of the colonisation of the Patagonian Atlantic coast developed by Charles III King of Spain in the late 18th century.
In Floridablanca the modern ideas of the Spanish Enlightment were experimented. The concepts of agriculture and family were the centre of the discourse for the colony. Agriculture was selected as the main means of support for the settlement. An attempt to guarantee agricultural development through building a society of farming families tied to the land. Households were seen as the essential unit of society and the basic elements needed for their maintenance was determined by the Spanish Crown (i.e., lodging, food, health, land, seeds and production means).
[edit] Historical Archaeology
Floridablanca has become the object of the research project "Archaeology and History at the Spanish colony of Floridablanca (Patagonia, 18th century)" headed by Dr. M.X. Senatore from the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas, CONICET and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
