La Civdad de S[an]tiago de Chile, Obispado. No Tiene Juridicion · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad de S[an]tiago de Chile, Obispado. No Tiene Juridicion
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Santiago; Chile; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is depicted in the author’s chapter where he discusses cities, towns, villages, and provinces in colonial South America. This image depicts the city of Santiago in modern day Chile. The city is arranged in a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre. The city is enclosed by fortification walls. There is a queue of people in the town square with three people holding large crucifixes, three people holding large guns, and one person at the left end of the queue holding a flag. There are two paths outside the city walls that lead in and out of the city. The author explains that the city of Santiago was rich in their supplies of fruit, meat, and bread. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “ciudad” [city].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:24185
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_24185_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization