Territorio nacional, cartografía y poder en la Nueva Granada (Colombia) a mediados del siglo XIX

Abstract

One of the main events of Colombian cartography history in XIX century is the effort to represent the territory of the country as a whole.The aim of this effort was to sketch the national territory’s border with other neighbor states, its geography and its internal political divisions. All of this was strongly linked to one of the main symbols of the emerging state : the national map.This article attempts to analyze the sources and methods which were used throughout the cartographic representation of the Colombian territory, as part of the process of construction of national identity. In order to do this, I take into in account the maps elaborated by Joaquin Acosta (1847), by Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera (1852), and by Manuel Ponce and Manuel Maria Paz based on Agustin Codazzi’s works.

Keywords

• Colombia
• Nueva Granada
• XIX
• cartografía
• fronteras
• Estado