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Historia Crítica
Print version ISSN 0121-1617
Abstract
MORA PACHECO, Katherinne. Tracking “Terrible Summers” and “Heavy Rains”. Elements for a Climate History of the Colombian Territory. hist.crit. [online]. 2019, n.74, pp.19-40. ISSN 0121-1617. https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit74.2019.02.
Objective/Context:
The objective of this article is to aid historians who are interested in recovering the climate history of the current Colombian territory, in their explanations and research about climate and weather factors.
Methodology:
In order to face the lack of quantitative records, this paper shows some alternatives such as looking for signs from indirect sources, the contrast of sources, series-making, and detection of teleconnections.
Originality:
It shows the potential of documentary sources, it synthesizes methodological problems and it exemplifies a few ways to solve them based on a research about the Cundiboyacense Plateau in the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century.
Conclusions:
The research agenda includes the exploration of new archives, climate history on a regional scale, the study of perceptions about weather even using quantitative records, and the exploration of the relationship climate-society during political struggle.
Keywords : Climate and weather; climate history; Colombia; drought; floods..