Description: A map of the Latin American States in 1823, showing the territories of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Columbia, the Guianas (British, Dutch, and French), Brazil, Peru, Chile, and the United Provinces of La Plata at the time. The map shows the boundary with the United States, the probable boundary of Brazil under the Treaty of 1777, the territory claimed by Paraguay (A), the territory of Uruguay (Cisplatine and Banda Oriental) was at the time joined to Brazil (B), Upper Peru, a part of Buenos Ayres viceroyalty, was then still controlled by the royalists, but claimed as a part of La Plata; later with a strip of the Peruvian coast, it became Bolivia (C), Chiapas in 1823 was not decisively a part either of Mexico or Central America (D). This map shows the battle sites of Tucuman (1), Salta (2), Chacabuco (3), Plains of Maipo (4), Talca (5), Boyaca (6), Carabobo (7), Pichincha (8), Junin (9), Ayacucho (10), Santa Cruz (11), Las Cruces (12), Guanajuato (13), Salvatierra (14), Aculco (15), Zitacuaro (16), Bridge of Calderon (17), and Cerro de Grillo (18).
Place Names: Regional Americas, Acapulco, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Guiana, La Plata, Panama, Peru, South America, North America, Central Americ
ISO Topic Categories: borders, political, kWorldAmericas
Keywords: Latin American States, borders, political, country borders, borders, political, kWorldAmericas, Unknown, 1823
Source: Dixon Ryan Fox, Harper's Atlas of American History (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1920) 35
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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