Venezuelan Guayana as a geostrategic setting in the war of independence (1810-1819): aspects for its study

Abstract

Since colonial times, the Province of Guayana became an area of high political and military value, due
to the potential offered fundamentally by the Orinoco River. Thus, during the Venezuelan independence process,
this geographical setting progressively became a space coverted by both royalists and republicans, contenders who
aspired to control the considerable resources offered by the region and the river communication routes to obtain
victory. For these reasons, in this work we study, from a historical and historiographic perspective, Venezuelan
Guyana as a geostrategic scenario in the war of independence between 1810 and 1817. It is a historical study
with a qualitative perspective based on Cultural History as a historiographical current. Consequently, the
article proposes an analysis that brings into dialogue the political, economic and socio-cultural aspects present
in Venezuelan Guiana during the period (1810-1819), emphasizing a review of primary and secondary sources,
applying documentary research techniques.