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Title: La Villa de Paita
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization; Francisco Pizarro
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Paita; 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 small town of Paita in Northwestern Peru. The town is comprised of a cluster of buildings that forms a square in the centre. There is a person standing in the centre of the square. There are soldiers and dogs outside the city walls. The author explains that the city had good soldiers and horsemen, good Christians, and plenty of food and sustenance. He also explained that the city was conquered by the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro. The caption at the bottom of the image reads uilla [towns].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23839
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_23839_OBJ.jpg