Guinea Ecuatorial

The Spanish annexation of the Gulf of Guinea, which was to resolve the centuries-old Spanish-Portuguese conflict over the Río de la Plata, would eventually lead Spain into the complex process of colonizing a territory that was as unknown as it was brimming with resources. The first explorers who ventured into the islands of Fernando Poo and Annobón, the uncomfortable British presence and the expansion of Spanish rule in continental territory until the beginning of its end with the impact of the Civil War on the colonies... The occupation of the African territory and the exercise of effective authority by Spain, requirements established at the Berlin Conference of 1885 for the recognition of sovereignty, meant in the case of Guinea a very slow, costly and difficult path.