Le Perou Dans l’Amérique Meridionale

Coloured map of the Viceroyalty of Peru, extending from southern Ecuador to northern Chile, at Atacama. Published in Paris in 1719 by Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720), a French cartographer, engraver and publisher, Geographer to King Louis XIV. The territory is subdivided into what today corresponds roughly to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. To the north it borders the ‘Pays de Juan Salinas’ —after Juan de Salinas y Loyola, a Spanish explorer—, now south-eastern Ecuador and northern Peru; to the south, the region of Paraguay; and to the east lies the ‘País del Amazonas’, then barely explored. The towns include Paita, Moyobamba, Chachapoyas, Lima, Cusco, Arequipa, La Paz, Potosí and Sucre (under its former name of La Plata or Chuquisaca). The relief includes the Andes mountain range, Lake Titicaca and the Amazon river. The title is framed in a cartouche decorated with Peruvian motifs; in the upper left corner, a compass rose indicates north.