 The main economic activity is agriculture and traditional products; dry cereals, olive groves, vineyards, sunflowers, sugar beet, and cotton are highly favored by its geographical location and activity between two provincial capitals among other minor centers.La Carlota was founded in 1767 due to the interest of King Carlos III to colonize some depopulated areas of the Guadalquivir valley and Sierra Morena (see Colonization of Sierra Morena and Andalusia).The legal framework for carrying out this colonization was the Law of the New Populations of Andalusia, which established three main settlement areas