Amazon River, Brazil, 1745 (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte du cours du Maragnon ou de la grande Riviere des Amazones : dans sa partie navigable depuis Jaen de Bracamoros jusqu'à son embouchure et qui comprend la province de Quito, et la côte de la Guiane depuis le Cap de Nord jusqu'à Essequebè : levée en 1743 et 1744 et assujettie aux observations astronomiques : augmentée du cours de la Riviére Noire et d'autres détails tirés de divers mémoires et routiers manuscrits du voyageurs modernes / par M. de la Condamine ; G.N. Delahaye, sculpsit. It was published by Académie des Sciences in 1745. Scale ca. 1:11,500,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South America Lambert Conformal Conic projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ecclesiastical missions, exploration notes, and names of regional colonial powers. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774., Haye, G. de la., and Fritz, Samuel, 1654-1724?

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Hydrography, Human settlements, Cities and towns, Villages, Landforms, Bodies of water, Land use, Infrastructure (Economics), Transportation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, and inlandWaters

Temporal Coverage:

1745

Date Issued:

2013-11

Spatial Coverage:

South America and Brazil

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF