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Nicolás Suárez Callaú
Nicolás Suárez Callaú (1851 in Portachuelo – 1940 in Cachuela Esperanza) set up a multinational rubber empire in South America at the beginning of the 20th century. Attracted by the rubber boom, Nicolas Suárez with three of his brothers crossed the Andes at the end of the 19th century and founded ''Cachuela Esperanza'' at the rapids of Beni River, Río Beni as a headquarters for the rubber export. In 1905, ''The India Rubber World'' reporter C.J. Post dubbed Nicolás as 'the John D. Rockefeller, Rockefeller of the Amazon rubber cycle, Rubber Trade'. During the heyday of the rubber boom, his empire had branches at Acre (state), Acre, Manaus, Belém, and London, and Nicolás Suárez Callaú owned 80,000 square kilometres of land in the Bolivian Beni Department, Beni and Pando Department, Pando departments, 50,000 heads of cattle and six steamboats. Early life Nicolás had entered the region of northern Bolivia in 1872, at the age of 21 in attempt to catch the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinchona Boom
''Cinchona'' (pronounced or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae containing at least 23 species of trees and shrubs. All are native to the tropical Andean forests of western South America. A few species are reportedly naturalized in Central America, Jamaica, French Polynesia, Sulawesi, Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, and São Tomé and Príncipe off the coast of tropical Africa, and others have been cultivated in India and Java, where they have formed hybrids. ''Cinchona'' has been historically sought after for its medicinal value, as the bark of several species yields quinine and other alkaloids. These were the only effective treatments against malaria during the height of European colonialism, which made them of great economic and political importance. Trees in the genus are also known as fever trees because of their antimalarial properties. The artificial synthesis of quinine in 1944, an increase in resistant forms of malaria, and the emergence of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
