Francisco José de Caldas's Unaccomplished Life-Project – His Map Provincias Unidas de la Nueva Granada, 1811/ 1815. (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mejía, Sergio
• Is Part Of: Cartographic journal. Volume 54:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 163
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: history of cartography -- cartography of South America -- Nueva Granada -- Vicente Talledo y Rivera -- Francisco José de Caldas; Cartography -- Periodicals; 526.05
• DOI: 10.1080/00087041.2016.1154301
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0008-7041

Abstract

Abstract : The first attempted republican map of present-day Colombia remained unachieved. Francisco José de Caldas worked on it since 1797 and, come the revolution and Nueva Granada's republican inception, he prepared two successive cartouches to introduce it: the first one in 1811, the latter in 1815. Finally entitled Provincias de la Nueva Granada, Caldas's map remains understudied. In this article, I establish its basic cartographic parameters, discuss the political context of its unfinished making and link it to its pertinent cartographic precedents.