A Portuguese America in the cartography of Pero de Magalhães de Gândavo
Keywords:
Cartography, Colonial Brazil, Pero de Magalhães de Gândavo
Abstract
The article aims to relate the branch of the knowledge produced about the Portuguese colonization in America, by means of the Lusitanian cartography of the XVI century, made public in the cartography document História da Província Santa Cruz, elaborated by Pero de Magalhães de Gândavo. From the study of the maps of Gândavo and others information on the subject produced by diverse authors, this article has the purpose to contribute for the debate on the imaginations lines that the Portuguese, represented here by Pero de Magalhães, transcribed about the structure and geographic conquest of the Santa Cruz Province.
Published
2020-05-11
Section
Artigos