Pearls in Latin America

In the sixteenth century, when Christopher Columbus was looking for a shorter route to the East, discovered large quantities of pearls on the shores of Panama and Venezuela, which led him to change his route.

Also, the pearls oysters from La Paz, are displayed next to a shell carved in the form of a slope in Ecuador, which dates from the third century, as well as a brooch in the form of spider, created with a pearl color La Paz black, in 1875.

The pearls have reached what it famous writers, among them include a Fancisco Villaespesa, known as the Captain of the Vanguard, by Spanish poets and Hispanic Americans with his book and play, El Alcazar of Pearls. They explained: "With concern traveler, lust for money and taste for the external manifestations of glory, embarks for americas: Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil. Some young poets but it remains behind modernism as a teacher. "

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