La Villa de Castrovirreyna de Cuyca Pallca, Chocllo Cocha, Minas de Plata, Orcon Cocha · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa de Castrovirreyna de Cuyca Pallca, Chocllo Cocha, Minas de Plata, Orcon Cocha
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Mines; Silver Mines; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Castrovirreyna; 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 Castrovirreyna in central Peru. The town is illustrated on the left side of the image and is arranged as a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre. There are many winding paths that lead into the city from the silver mines that surround the area. People are depicted walking towards and away from the city, some with llamas carrying their supplies. Lake Chochlococha is depicted in the bottom right corner of the image. The caption at the bottom of the image reads uilla [villa].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23877
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_23877_OBJ.jpg