Plano de la Baia y Ciud. de Portoveto. [Portobelo] ...
Creator 1:
Moreno
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Madrid]
Image publisher:
[Antonio Marin]
Image date:
1736
Image function:
fold-out plate 8; vol. 1, pt. 1, following p. 142
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
33.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
41 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Plan of the city and port of Portobelo in present-day Panama. Cartographic elements include soundings, names of bodies of water, scale, and compass rose. Items are lettered for identification in key at right of image.
Source creator:
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
Source Title:
Relacion historica del viage a la America meridional ... Primera parte, Tomo primero.
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
Por Antonio Marin
Source date:
M.DCC.XLVIII [1748]
notes:
An account of the expedition sent by the French Académie Royale des Sciences in 1735 to measure a degree of the meridian at the equator. The participants included the Frenchmen, La Condamine, Godin, and Bouguer, and the Spaniards, Ulloa and Juan y Santaci
Time Period:
1701-1750
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject headings:
Harbors--Panama; Portobelo Bay (Panama)--Descriptio n and travel
