La Villa Rica de Oropesa de Guancabilca, Minas de Azogue. En la Dicha Mina se Acaua los Yndios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa Rica de Oropesa de Guancabilca, Minas de Azogue. En la Dicha Mina se Acaua los Yndios
Subject: Cities; Villages; Towns; Mines; Mercury; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Oropesa; 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 Oropesa in Peru. The city is arranged in a cluster of buildings that forms a square in the centre where three people are depicted walking. There are many winding paths that lead into the city from the mercury mines that surround the area. There are people illustrated walking on these paths carrying supplies. The mine in the top left corner has a caption that reads, socabón [sinkhole]. The mine at the top right corner has a caption that reads, Guayna Potocí, minas de plata [Guayna Potoci, silver mines]. The foreground of the image depicts furnaces where the deposits from the mines are being smelted. 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:23879
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23879_OBJ.jpg