Los mercaderes de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XVI y el comercio con el exterior

Abstract

The article offers data on the Mexico’s merchants in the XVI century, the business main center of New Spain, and their participation in the foreign trade in that century. They are approached the commercial importance of the vice regal capital, the main routes of the foreign trade, the composition of the mercantile community, the participation of the wealthy merchants in the transatlantic exchange and colonial trade and in the commercialization of the goods.