Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada
Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada
- Date
- 1783-1816 · confidence high
- Place
- Mariquita, Tolima, Colombia
- Credited to
- José Celestino Mutis and New Granadan collaborators
- People
- 👤 José Celestino Mutado1732–1808
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
An inventory of the flora of present-day Colombia with more than 6,000 hand-coloured plates and studies of cinchona bark. It trained a generation of Creole naturalists.
Mutis was from Cádiz; the expedition was based in Mariquita and later in Santa Fe de Bogotá.
What it led to
- Flora de la Real Expedición
- scientific study of cinchona bark
- the circle of Caldas, Zea and Lozano