Pedro Fermín de Vargas y Sarmiento (San Gil, July 3, 1762-New York, 1811 or 1813) was a neogranadine naturalist and economist . Educated at the Mayor College of Our Lady of the Rosary in Santa Fe betw.. Смотреть далее »een 1776 and 1780, from 1784 he became a highly regarded disciple of the sage José Celestino Mutis in his newly established botanical expedition.
A possessor of clear intelligence, who allowed him to cultivate various disciplines, Vargas is generally considered the first political economist in the new Granada of his time.