Mapa general de la republica Nicaragua / levantado por orden del gobierno por Maxmilian v. Sonnenstern 1859
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- Created Date
- 1858
- Description
Relief shown by hachures. Includes 4 cross sections, and 3 inset maps. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1858 by M.V. Sonnenstern in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York." "Printed by J. Rau." In Spanish. This map has been conserved through the generosity of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), 2011.
Maximilian von Sonnenstern was a German civil engineer who was employed for many years by the government of Nicaragua and carried out detailed surveys of the country. Sonnenstern’s Mapa general de la republica Nicaragua (General map of the Republic of Nicaragua) is the first official map of Nicaragua, created by order of the Nicaraguan government. The map contains four cross sections, showing the heights of mountains and volcanoes. Three inset maps depict the towns of León, Granada, and Viejo León (the old city of León that was abandoned by its inhabitants following the earthquake of 1610 and relocated to the site of present-day León). The map shows the international borders with Honduras and Costa Rica, department borders, roads, planned railroad lines, rivers, mines, ruins, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Relief is shown by hachures. Two distance scales are given: Castilian leagues and English miles (one Castilian league = 4.18 kilometers; one mile = 1.61 kilometers). Nicaragua
Color
1:700,000
- Creator
Sonnenstern, Maxmilian von
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Maxmilian v. Sonnenstern and G. Kraetzer Lith
- Subjects
- Nicaragua--Maps
- Type
- image
- Language
- Sp
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Sonnenstern, Maxmilian von. Mapa general de la republica Nicaragua / levantado por orden del gobierno por Maxmilian v. Sonnenstern 1859. 1858. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/950. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Sonnenstern, Maxmilian von, (1858) Mapa general de la republica Nicaragua / levantado por orden del gobierno por Maxmilian v. Sonnenstern 1859. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/950
- MLA citation style
- Sonnenstern, Maxmilian von. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/950>.