The 1824 census. Social space and socioeconomic structure in Lima

Fonseca M.C.; Salcedo E.M. · Trashumante (2021) · DOI: 10.17533/udea.trahs.n18a12

Resumen

This paper shows and analyzes the unfinished 1824 population census of Lima, recently found at the Municipal Historical Archive of Lima. It has the double purpose of presenting the census’ content and calling attention to the historiographic possibilities of several volumes of incomplete information on the city’s demography during the early Republic. Based on the analysis of two neighborhoods, a microscopic approach to the city’s socioeconomic structure is made to explain the profile of both places and contribute to studying the sociodemographic characterization of the city in a period of upheaval and continuous mobility.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú