{"id":2544,"date":"2021-08-19T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:36","slug":"brazil-as-island-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/naturalia\/brazil-as-island-map\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAZIL-AS-ISLAND MAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 1639 map portrays the Amazon with a peculiar longitudinal orientation, with the city of Quito at the top at the headwaters of the river. The chart lent support to the development and advancement of Portuguese Jesuit missionary activity along the course of the Amazon. The cartographic delineation of the Amazon River in a longitudinal or north\u2013south orientation was the foundation of the \u2018Brazil-as-island\u2019 concept. The implication of ths concept was that both crowns could exert dominion along the entire Amazon and River Plate, since the rivers constituted the very line dividing the Portuguese and Spanish realms in South America. As a result, the maps of South America produced by some of the most renowned cartographers had to be contested from the Spanish side, since this delineation gave a free pass to Portuguese and other Atlantic powers to navigate upriver towards the sources of the Amazon and River Plate to the Viceroyalty of Peru, including the silver mines of Potos\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1639 map portrays the Amazon with a peculiar longitudinal orientation, with the city of Quito at the top at the headwaters of the river. The chart lent support to the development and advancement of Portuguese Jesuit missionary activity along the course of the Amazon. The cartographic delineation of the Amazon River in a longitudinal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naturalia","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}