The Archivo General de Indias retains more than 43,000 bundles, installed in eight linear miles of shelves, with some 80 million pages of original documents which contain more than three centuries of the history of an entire continent, from Tierra del Fuego up to the southern United States, in addition to the Spanish Far East, the Philippines. It is the political history and social history, economic history and philosophy, the history of the Church, and the history of art. The most varied issues occupy the interest of thousands of researchers who go through the Archive: since the discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World, until independence, from political institutions up the history of pre-Columbian peoples, from trade to the problems of maritime traffic; missionary from the expansion until the Inquisition. The Archivo General de Indias will contributeover time to obtain the most complete and documented historical overview of the Spanish Administration of the New World, as at the time wanted to King Carlos III, the founder of the archives.