La Villa de Conchocos, Minas de Plata · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa de Conchocos, Minas de Plata
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards; Mines
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Conchucos; 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 of Conchucos in Peru. It is illustrated as a cluster of buildings that forms a square in the centre. There is a person illustrated standing in the square. It is located amongst the mountainous Andean landscape. There are four pathways illustrated leading into the city from different directions with people walking along them. The author explains that the city was located near many silver mines. 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:23838
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_23838_OBJ.jpg