La Civdad de Chvqviiapo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad de Chvqviiapo
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Bolivia; La Paz; 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 Chuquiyabo [La Paz] in modern day Bolivia. The city is arranged in a cluster of buildings that forms a centre where people are depicted walking. The mountainous Andean lanscape is illustrated in the background with birds flying in the sky. There are two winding pathways that lead in and out of the city where two people are illustrated walking and one person is riding a horse. The author explains that the city was founded by Spanish conquistadors and was wealthy in food and silver and gold. 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:24097
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_24097_OBJ.jpg