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Noticias del Puerto de Amapala, 1776, including a manuscript map, Plano de Puerto de Amapala.
BANC MSS 88/168 zLOCAL
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Title:
Noticias del Puerto de Amapala, 1776: including a manuscript map, Plano de Puerto de AmapalaCreator/Contributor:
Hervé, Juan de., creatorAbstract:
Careful description and analysis of the port of Amapala, Honduras, with a map of the harbor with scale and key to all placenames.
Text provides information on the topography of the port, the Spanish ships built there, the cost of labor, abundance of canvas,
poor quality of iron mines, the five kinds of cloth produced there, types of wood, quality of carpenters and porters should
a shipyard be built, and the most valuable natural resources of the area.
Date:
1776 (issued)Subject:
ncho---Amapala (Honduras)
Honduras -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
Note:
Juan de Herv́ was the sublieutenant and cartographer on the Spanish South Sea voyages of discovery under the naval commander-in-chief
of the South Seas, Giuseppe de la Somaglia.
Type:
Maps.Physical Description:
3 p.
1 leaf : 39 x 40 cm. (in oversize folder)
Language:
Spanish
Identifier:
BANC MSS 88/168 zLOCAL