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Mapping Latin America 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd i 3/21/11 10:21 AM 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd ii 3/21/11 10:21 AM Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader Edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen ✵ The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd iii 3/21/11 10:21 AM Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and director of Latin American studies at Skidmore College and the author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759–1838. Karl Off en is associate professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London ©(cid:6)2011 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2011 Printed in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11(cid:13)(cid:13)(cid:13)1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 61821- 0 (cloth) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 61822- 7 (paper) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 61821- 8 (cloth) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 61822- 6 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Mapping Latin America : a cartographic reader / edited by Jordana Dym (cid:13)and Karl Off en. (cid:13)(cid:13)(cid:13)p. cm. (cid:13)isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 61821- 0 (cloth : alk. paper) (cid:13)isbn- 10: 0- 226- 61821- 8 (cloth : alk. paper) (cid:13)isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 61822- 7 (pbk. : alk. paper) (cid:13)isbn- 10: 0- 226- 61822- 6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Cartography—Latin America—History. I. Dym, Jordana, 1967–  II. Off en, Karl. ga641.m37 2011 912.8—dc22 2010021770 o The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1 992. 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd iv 3/21/11 10:21 AM For Henry W. Offen (1937–2010), Karl’s guiding spirit and Rita T. Gelb, Jordana’s mother and friend 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd v 3/21/11 10:21 AM 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd vi 3/21/11 10:21 AM Contents Foreword | Matthew H. Edney xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction | Karl Offen and Jordana Dym 1 I. The Colonial Period: Explorations and Empires 19 Imagining a New World 1 Palace Arts | Francisco Estrada- Belli 25 and Heather Hurst Mural painting from a Maya palace, La Sufricaya, Guatemala, ca. AD 379 2 America | John Hébert 29 Martin Waldseemüller, Universalis cosmographia, 1507 3 Charting Shores | Ricardo Padrón 33 Diogo Ribeiro, Carta Universal, 1529 4 Fabled Land | D. Graham Burnett 38 Walter Ralegh, map of Guiana (El Dorado), ca. 1596 Urban Society 5 Indigenous Civilization | Barbara E. Mundy 42 Map of Tenochtitlán (Mexico), 1524 6 Projecting Order | Richard L. Kagan 46 Plano fundacional de San Juan de la Frontera (Argentina), 1562 Plaza Mayor de Lima (Peru), 1680 7 Hybrid Space | Barbara E. Mundy 51 Map from the Relación Geográfi ca of Cholula (Mexico), 1581 Environment and Society 8 Litigating Land | Barbara E. Mundy 56 Oztoticpac Lands Map, Texcoco (Mexico), ca. 1540 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd vii 3/21/11 10:21 AM 9 Mining Mountains | Peter Bakewell 61 Illustration with map of a Potosí silver refi ning mill and Cerro Rico, ca. 1590 Planta general de la Villa Ymperial de Potosí (Bolivia), ca. 1590 10 Between Two Seas | W. George Lovell and 65 Christopher H. Lutz Antonio Herrera, Descripción del Avdiencia de Gvatimala, 1601 Juan López de Velasco, Descripción de la Audiencia de Guatemala, 1575 11 Bourbons and Water | Vera S. Candiani 70 Joaquín Velázquez de León and Joseph de Burgaleta, Perfi l y corte por la latitud de las compuertas y puntos principales del canal de Huehuetoca (Mexico), 1774 Ignacio Castera, Plano general de toda la extensión del Desagüe (Mexico), 1795 Counter Visions 12 Andean Empire | Rolena Adorno 74 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, map of Huamanga (Peru), 1590s Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Mapa mundi de[l] Reino de las In[di]as, 1615 13 Imperial Rivalries | Matthew Restall 79 Herman Moll, A Map of the West-I ndies . . . explaining what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland, etc., 1715 14 Allegory and Empire | Ricardo Padrón 84 Vicente de Memije, Aspecto Simbólico del Mundo Hispánico, 1761 Vicente de Memije, Aspecto Geográphico del Mundo Hispánico, 1761 Control and Defense 15 Edge of Empire | Karl Offen 88 [Sabastián de Aranciuia y Sasi], Mapa de lo principal de la Provincia de Nicaragua, 1716 Franciso Antonio Fuentes y Guzmán, Audiencia de Guatemala, ca. 1690 16 Mapping New Spain Borderlands | 93 Dennis Reinhartz Agustín López de la Cámara Alta, Mapa General . . . de la nueba colonia de Santander (Mexico), 1758 Francisco José de Haro, . . . todas las billas y lugares de españoles haci como las Missiones de indios y presidios existentes en la Provincia Nuevo Santander (Mexico), ca. 1770 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd viii 3/21/11 10:21 AM 17 Forts and Ports | Joseph L. Scarpaci 98 Antonio M. de la Torre y Cárdenas, Plano de la Plaza de la Havana (Cuba), 1817 Agustín Crame, Plano de la Plaza de Panamá, 1779 18 Estate Maps | David Buisseret 103 [Robert Baugh Junior], Plan of Papine Estate (Jamaica), 1834 Plan de la première, seconde et troisième habitations de M. de Laborde (Haiti), ca. 1790 Bourbon Space 19 Myths and Measurements | Neil Safi er 107 Charles- Marie de la Condamine, Carte du cours du Maragnon (Amazon basin), ca. 1745 20 Creole Landscapes | Magali M. Carrera 110 José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Nuevo mapa geográfi co de la América septentrional española (Mexico), 1767 Luis de Mena, casta panel (Mexico), ca. 1750 21 Cartographic Independence | 114 Junia Ferreira Furtado José Joaquim da Rocha, Mapa da Capitania da Minas Gerais (Brazil), 1778 José Joaquim da Rocha, Mapa da Comarca da Sabara (Brazil), 1778 II. The Nineteenth Century: Enlightenment, Independence, and the Nation- State 121 Exploration and Cartography 22 Mapping Mountains | Karl S. Zimmerer 125 Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, Géographie des plantes équinoxiales (the Chimborazo Map) (Ecuador), 1807 Pedro Cieza de León, Brevis exactaq[ue] totivs novi orbis (South America), 1560 23 Traversing Space | D. Graham Burnett 131 John Arrowsmith, Map of Guayana to Illustrate the route of R. H. Schomburgk, 1840 24 Cutting Across | Peter H. Dana 135 Lionel Gisborne, Atlantic and Pacifi c Junction: Topographical Map of a portion of the Isthmus of Darien In Site Of Proposed Inter- Oceanic Navigation (Panama), 1852 25 Minerals and War | Karl Offen 139 Josiah Harding, Map of Part of the Desert of Atacama (Bolivia), 1877 00_CHI_Dym_fm.indd ix 3/21/11 10:21 AM

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