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

Title: La Villa de Riobamba
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Ecuador; Riobamba; 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 town of Riobamba, Ecuador. The town is laid out in a grid and has twelve blocks within that grid. There are eight blocks in the grid that have four houses within them. One of the blocks is a church, and to the left of the church, there is a block with a cross in it. The block in front of the church appears to be a main square with two people standing in it. The Andean mountainous landscape is visible in the background with birds flying above and goats roaming the mountains. The caption at the bottom of the image reads villa [town]. The author explains that this city was founded by Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23834
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_23834_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards