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This monograph seeks the origins of the economic structures of the region of Azuero. The main in-terest of this paper is to present the forms of land ownership that served as the basis for the organization of life in the region of Azuero, through a journey of nearly 500 years. From the Spanish settlement in the XVI century in the region of Cubita, from 1569 until the XVIII century when the community land ownership pardoned by the King of Spain was structured to reach the twentieth century, being emancipated from Colombia, the process of privatization of land is given through Law 20 of 1913. These are the communal agrarian structures pardoned land where the foundations of the original Azuero culture was created, and transformed with its capitalist business trait in the XX century to be then privatized.