Corografia de las misiones, que administran los misioneros del Colegio Apostolico de propaganda fide de la S[an]ta Cruz de Queretaro, in la provincia de Sonora, con los paises de las naciones gentiles, que tienen acia norte, y poniente.

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of North America--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Indians of North America.

Arizona--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Arizona.

Sonora (Mexico : State)--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Sonora (Mexico : State).

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 map).

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 17uu ; approximately 1908]

Summary:

Tracing made by Irving B. Richman, (?)1908 from an anonymous and undated late-eighteenth-century manuscript map. Shows area including Monterey, California, central Baja California, and the Colorado and Gila Rivers, but most detailed in Sonora and Arizona. Identifies missions, presidios (including the presidio at Tucson, established 1776), and Tohono O'Odham, Apache, Hopi, Pima, Yuma and Seri Indian villages.

Notes:

AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 224

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

Indigenous Peoples metadata has been supplied by exonym as these are the terms most commonly used in the documents. Updates are being made to metadata to reference preferred names wherever possible. For more information on our approach to language and metadata in the resource visit the Language Statement.

Original possibly in the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City.

Scale c.1:3,350,000: 'Escala de 40 leguas Megicanas, por tierra [= 49 mm]'.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 30, 2024).