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ARCA (Archive and Resource Center for the Americas) is an initiative to unite datasets and resources for the history of the Americas, especially Spanish America. Beyond the functionality as a mere repository, it aims at integrating datasets by docking them to a shared framework of central resources, systematics and format standards. The quintessential framework database, HGIS de las Indias, is also the seed resource for the initiative.

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Data: Silver registry per Royal Treasury, 1545-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Silver registry per Royal Treasury, 1545-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NNFFCH Shapefile with data on official silver registry in Royal Treasuries of Spanish America, 1545-1808. Original data compiled by Herbert Klein/John Jay TePaske, machine readable by Richard Garner, spatial dataset by HGIS de las Indias. Full metadata in attached textfile. This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Data: Natural disasters in Spanish America, 1492-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Natural disasters in Spanish America, 1492-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M5STC0 CSV files with coordinates for natural disaster events within Spanish America between 1492 and 1808, compiled from general databases (NOAA etc.). Complete metadata in the attached textfile. This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Demographic data, 1701-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2017, "Demographic data, 1701-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QABIBG Dataset containing ~8000 entries with demographic information on places and 700 entries with information on territories between 1701 and 1808. The information was compiled mainly from original sources and thus carries the bias inherent to them! The original information has very v... This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Data: Maritime Post of Spanish America, 1764-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Maritime Post of Spanish America, 1764-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S8550U Generalized routes of the regular maritime ships of the Royal maritime post and subsidiary routes, 1764-1808. Full metadata in the attached textfile This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Data: Mail land routes of Spanish America, 1745-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Mail land routes of Spanish America, 1745-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/W4C9H7 Reconstruction of regular mail routes in Spanish America, 1745 onwards - especially in times of the "royal rent" (1768 onwards). We have not yet found information on everything. Especially minor Mexican routes are missing. Full metadata in the attached textfile This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Data: Routes of the flotas y galeones, 1564-1778 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Routes of the flotas y galeones, 1564-1778", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UGLWCR Shapefile with a generalization of the routes of the Spanish "fleets and galleons" convoy system. Full metadata in the attached textfile This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Data: Territorial gazetteer for Spanish America, 1701-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Territorial gazetteer for Spanish America, 1701-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YPEU5E Shapefile and geopackage with information on territorial organization of the Spanish Empire in America, 1701-1808 (spatio-temporal objects), organized in 11 levels (principal divisions; audiencias; intendencies; larger provinces; provinces; smaller provinces; jurisdictions; distr... This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Visita of Santa Fe Province (Nueva Granada) by Joaquín de Arióstegui, 1756-1761 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Visita of Santa Fe Province (Nueva Granada) by Joaquín de Arióstegui, 1756-1761", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z5VZDM Data compiled by Joaquín de Arióstegui during his visit of the corregimientos of the capital province of Santa Fe (Bogotá), 1756-1761. This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Data: Potosi/Huancavelica mita, subject provinces and data, 1701-1808 Apr 15, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "Data: Potosi/Huancavelica mita, subject provinces and data, 1701-1808", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YSPI4X Shapefile with information on territories subject to the supraregional mining mitas of Potosí and Huancavelica, for some years including numbers on recruited persons. Full metadata in the attached text file. This dataset is harvested from Harvard's Dataverse. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
'Data: Instituciones coloniales'. In: Werner Stangl (coord.), Indias-HGIS 2.0 Feb 9, 2025 - Indias HGIS 2.0 Stangl, Werner, 2025, "'Data: Instituciones coloniales'. In: Werner Stangl (coord.), Indias-HGIS 2.0", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VW9QE2, Yale Dataverse, V1 This resource contains key institutions of the colonial system, both administrative and civil. It does not contain institutions with an essentially territorial identity such as audiences, districts or diocesan headquarters, as they are already included in the system and other res...

Data: Silver registry per Royal Treasury, 1545-1808