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The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands

The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands

Wiersema, Juliet B.

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AtlasesCaribbean, Latin American & South American ArtSouth American History

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ISBN10: 1477327746
ISBN13: 9781477327746
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jan 9 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.10
Language: English

An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.

During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada's economy yet this Pacific frontier in today's Colombia was considered the periphery of the periphery. Infamous for its fierce, unconquered Indigenous inhabitants and its brutal tropical climate, it was rarely visited by Spanish administrators, engineers, or topographers and seldom appeared in detail on printed maps of the period.

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