Texas State Archives Map Collection
Mapa de la Sierra Gorda, y coasta de el Seno Mexico, desde la cuidad de Queretero... que esta la Bahia de el Espiritu Santo…
| Date: | 1792 |
| Publisher: | -- None Listed -- |
| Cartographer: | -- None Listed -- |
| Scale: | 1 inch = 10 leagues |
| Size: | 49 cm x 39 cm |
| Type of Map: | general |
| Format: | color, engraved, lithographed, printed |
| Language: | Spanish |
| AC Number: | 02343 |
| Photo Media: | -- None Listed -- |
| File Size: | 35.01 MB |
Mapa de la Sierra Gorda, y coasta de el Seno Mexico, desde la cuidad de Queretero... que esta la Bahia de el Espiritu Santo… Image:
Description:
[Title translation] Map of the Sierra Gorda, and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from the city of Queretero... to La Bahia de el Espiritu Santo...
Covers the province of Nuevo Santander as well as jurisdictions in northern Mexico--including those of Coahuila, San Louis Potosi, Nuevo Leon; and south Texas. Shows rivers, mountainous areas, cities, towns, routes of General Don Joseph Escadon, roads, routes and trails, missions, and presidios. This map is in Spanish.
The original is in the Archivo General y Publico, Mexico, Historia, volume 29. Another copy exists in the Archives Map Collection--map 1525a (and an earlier edition, photograph 1983/18-21), which also appears in Herbert E. Bolton's, Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century, 1915, following page 302.
9/23/83
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