empresario
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8 sectionsContents
- Stephen F. Austin
- Background
- Rules for settlers
- Notable empresarios
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|right|Map of Texas in 1833 showing several of the land grants
An empresario () was a person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of Coahuila y Tejas in the early nineteenth century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “empresario” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.