La Civdad de Loxa · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad de Loxa
Subject: Villages; Towns; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization; Cities
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Loja; South America; Ecuador; West Indies; Peru
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 Loja in Ecuador. The city is illustrated as a cluster of buildings that forms a square in the centre. There is a soldier standing on the left side of the square and two men riding horses on the other side of the square. There are also soldiers standing atop a large building in the city keeping watch. The author explains that the people who lived in this city were good Christians. 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:23836
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_23836_OBJ.jpg