La Villa de S[an]tiago de la Nasca, Uino de Uayuri · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa de S[an]tiago de la Nasca, Uino de Uayuri
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Wine; Food; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Nazca; 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. The image depicts the desert town of Nazca in Southern Peru. It is arranged in a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre where two people are walking, and one person is riding on a horse. The author explains that Nazca is the best wine region in the kingdom. There are grapes on vines on the trees at the foreground of the image to demonstrate the importance of wine. There are three winding pathways that lead into and out of the city from different directions where people can be seen walking or riding along them. 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:23876
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_23876_OBJ.jpg