Descripcion del Audiencia del Quito

Coloured map of 1601 depicting the territory of the Audiencia of Quito (present-day Ecuador). Published in Madrid in 1601 by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, a Spanish historian and chronicler, chief chronicler of the Indies and author of the Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Océano. It identifies the main localities of the region: Quito, Guayaquil, Popayán, Cuenca, Valladolid, Loja and Paita. It is a simply drawn map.