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Mappa Mundi in La Fleur des Histoires, 1459-1463, showing at top Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of land and water.
Colonial Zone of La Guaira: On June 29, 1589, don Diego de Osorio y Villegas founded the town of San Pedro de La Guaira, today these colonial buildings, with their facades and large windows can be seen in the parish. Castle of Las Salinas: It was built on the land of the García Laucarce family.
The Huasteca Hidalgo is located to the north of the state territory, but some sources extend it to the south, to the municipalities of Molango de Escamilla, Metztitlán and Zacualtipán de Ángeles. [24] [20] Even annexing parts of the municipality of Huasca de Ocampo, [25] and the Sierra de Tenango, [24] [20] reaching the northern part of ...
Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]
Zacualpan is one of the 125 municipalities in the State of Mexico in Mexico.It's municipal seat and largest settlement is the town of Zacualpan. It's located to the South of the state sharing a border with the State of Guerrero, 40 minutes from Ixtapan de la Sal, 1 hour and 50 minutes from the city of Toluca (the State's Capital), and 2 and a half hours from Mexico City.
The rhumb-line construction scheme and geographic lines in the Cantino planisphere. Adapted from Gaspar (2012), Plate 3. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant example of the so-called latitude chart, which was developed following the introduction of astronomical navigation, during the second half of the fifteenth century.
The municipal seat is the town of El Oro de Hidalgo. The name El Oro ( Spanish: [el ˈoɾo] ⓘ ) means "the gold" in Spanish . It has subsequently been given an alternative Nahuatl name of "Teocuitlatl", meaning "sacred excrement" (referring to gold).
Map of Nayarit before the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire The colonial contaduría (accounting offices) in the old port town of San Blas. Radiocarbon dating estimate Aztatlán colonization of the western Mexican coast – including parts of Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco – as occurring as early as 900 AD, with some evidence suggesting it might have been as early as 520 AD.