La Villa de Callav, Puerto de los Reys de Lima · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa de Callav, Puerto de los Reys de Lima
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Conquest; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards; Ports
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Callao; Lima; 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 port town of Collao in Peru. The city is located on the edge of the shore where many boats are depicted in the water approaching the shore. The town itself is arranged in a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre where people are illustrated walking. There is a winding path that leads in and out of the city. A person is depicted walking along that path towards the town. The author explains that this port was used as the point of entry and exit to and from Castile. He also explains that the people who live in Callao were good, charitable Christians. 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:23871
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_23871_OBJ.jpg