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[Columbia. Comision Corografica, Ponce de Leon, Manuel]
Note
Important early color map of Panama, backed with linen and varnished. Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset map and note. Prime meridian is Bogota. One of the earliest printed maps of Panama based upon indigenous surveys. Published during the period when it was still one of the states of Colombia. Manuel María Paz Delgado (1820-1902) was a officer in the Colombia army, mapmaker and artist. Between 1853 and 1858, Maria Paz worked with Cordazzi, perhaps the most famous map maker of the northern part of South America after its independence from Spain. With Codazzi's death, Maria Paz and Manuel Ponce de Leon were given control of the project's completion and publication of the surveying and mapping work The work resulted in the the publication of the atlas of the United States of Colombia in 1865, the first indigenous atlas of Colombia. Panama first asserted its independence in 1841. In November 1840, the isthmus under the leadership General Tomás Herrera, who assumed the title of Superior Civil Chief, declared its independence. The State of Panama took the name of 'Estado Libre del Istmo', or the Free State of the Isthmus in March 1841. By the time the civil conflict ended and the government of New Granada and the government of the Isthmus had negotiated the Isthmus's reincorporation to the union, Panama's First Republic had been free for 13 months. Reunification happened on December 31, 1841.
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