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Title: Mexico City, Mexico, 1776 (Image 4 of 4) (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2009-04
  • Coverage: 1776

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plano geometrico de la imperial noble y leal ciudad de Mexico : teniendo por extremo la zanxa y garitas del resguardo de la real aduana, sacado de orden del Se?or Don Francisco Leandro de Viana, conde de Tepa, oydor que fue de la real audiencia de Mexico y hoi de consejo y camara de Indias ; por D. Ignacio de Castera, a?o de 1776 ; dale ? luz Don Tomas Lopez, ge?grafo de los dominios de S.M. It was published by [Tomas Lopez] in 1785. Scale [ca. 1:7,560]. This layer is image 4 of 4 total images of the four sheet source map, representing the northeast portion of the map. Covers Mexico City, Mexico. Map in Spanish.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the NAD 1927 UTM Zone 14N 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 roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, and more. Includes notes and index to parishes, convents, schools, important houses, and sentries. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Mexico
  • Ciudad de M?xico
  • Mexico City
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use
  • Landforms
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-99.139408, -99.110393, 19.459117, 19.426926)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-99.139408, -99.110393, 19.459117, 19.426926)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, L?pez de Vargas Machuca, Tom?s, 1731-1802., Castera, Ignacio de, 1750?-1811., Viana, Francisco Leandro de, 1730-1804. Mexico City, Mexico, 1776 (Image 4 of 4) (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4414-m6-1776-l6-sh4

Format

GeoTIFF