La Villa de Pverto Viexo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Villa de Pverto Viexo
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Puerto Viejo; Costa Rica; 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 down of Puerto Viejo in modern Costa Rica. The author describes this town to be the first Christian port of the kingdom. The city is illustrated on the edge of a coastal region. There is long beach grass sticking out on the side of the edge to further demonstrate that the city is located on the edge of water. There are four boats depicted in the water on the left side of the image. The town is illustrated as a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre. There are three people walking in the square. There is a long winding path that leads into the city where a soldier is illustrated walking. 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:23865
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_23865_OBJ.jpg