Title: Northern South America, Venezuela,Columbia, 1656 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2013
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2013-11
- Coverage: 1656
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Terre Ferme : ou sont les governations, ou gouvernemens de Terre Ferme, Cartagene, Ste. Marthe, Rio de la Hache, Venezuela, Nouvelle Andalusie, Popayan, Nouveau Roy.me de Grenade, &c. / par N. Sanson d'Abbeville, Géographe ordinaire du Roy ; Somer sculp. It was published by Chez Pierre Mariette, Rue St. Iacque a l'Esperance in 1656. Scale ca. 1:5,400,000. 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, tribal descriptions, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. 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.
Subjects
- Boundaries
- Transportation
- South America
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Indigenous peoples
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- Land use
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-84.436986, -55.493714, 18.170245, -4.177348)
- Geometry: BBOX (-84.436986, -55.493714, 18.170245, -4.177348)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667., Somer, Jean. Northern South America, Venezuela,Columbia, 1656 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5200-1656-s3
Format
GeoTIFF