Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map of New Spain, Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova. At its greatest extent, the Spanish crown claimed on the mainland of the Americas much of North America south of Canada, that is: all of modern Mexico and Central America except Panama; most of the United States west of the Mississippi River, plus the Floridas.

Dedicated to the Honorable D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, Marquis de las Amarillas, governor viceroy and Captain general of New Spain (1755-58), this presentation piece consists of a map of New Spain and North America, a distance chart between principal cities of New Spain, and an idealized view of the area between Mexico City and Veracruz ...

2024年2月7日 · A map depicting the Viceroyalty of New Spain (the first of four viceroyalties that the Spanish Crown established to govern its conquests) which, at its height, comprised five royal audiencias and over twelve Catholic dioceses covering vast and diverse territories that included present-day Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto ...

2024年1月21日 · Media in category "Old maps of the Viceroyalty of New Spain" The following 152 files are in this category, out of 152 total. "Mapa de las lagunas rios y lugares que circundan a Mexico..."

2024年1月21日 · English: Maps of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España) of 1535—1821 in North America. Subcategories This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.

2022年4月6日 · In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates the complex cultural negotiations that colonists and indigenes undertook in mapping the colony. Her book explains both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these early colonial maps, and traces the gradual reshaping of indigene world views in ...

New Spain consisted of Mexico, much of Central America, parts of the West Indies, from California to Florida, and the Philippines.

Viceroyalty of New Spain, the first of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its conquered lands in the New World. Established in 1535, it initially included all land north of the Isthmus of Panama under Spanish control. This later …

The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and cartographer, Juan de la Cosa, and was likely created in 1500.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.