Church Atlas | South America | Vintage Map

The "Circoscrizione delle Provincie Ecclesiastiche nell'America" Meridionale shows the entire South American continent, divided into color-coded ecclesiastical provinces. To the north lie Venezuela, New Granada, and Ecuador (brown tones), followed by Guiana (turquoise) and Peru (violet) on the Pacific coast. Brazil, which dominates in terms of surface area, is depicted in a delicate beige, while Bolivia (green), along with La Plata, Uruguay, and the elongated Chile-Patagonia (pink and yellow) in the south, round off the subcontinent. The massive river systems of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Río de la Plata are finely delineated, as are the Andes along the west coast. Calligraphic labels frame the adjacent seas: "Oceano Atlantico Equinoziale" in the northeast, "Oceano Atlantico Australe" in the southeast, and "Grande Oceano Equinoziale" and "Grande Oceano Australe" along the Pacific coast. The map extends from the Caribbean coast in the north to the Strait of Magellan and the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in the extreme south. Capital cities such as Bogotá, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires are marked with small symbols. The clear, high-contrast color separation vividly illustrates the ecclesiastical administrative structure of the South American continent in the 19th century and makes the enormous extent of the individual dioceses—particularly the Brazilian ones—visible.

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