La Villa de Canete · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa de Canete
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Ports; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cañete; Lima; West Indies; South America
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 town of Cañete which is south of Lima in Peru. It is a coastal town located next to the water, as illustrated in the image. The town is arranged in a cluster of buildings that form a square in the centre. There are three people walking in the town square, and there are two people walking on the winding path that leads into the city. There are boats, birds, and seals depicted in the water on the left side of the image. The author explains that this town was plentiful in food and had good, charitable Christians living there. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “uilla” [town].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23873
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_23873_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Ports; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards