Puebla

Informative antique map of the state of Puebla, in Mexico, made by the leading cartographer Antonio García Cubas for his Atlas Mexicano. It includes information relating to the climate, natural products, territorial and population division. It indicates municipalities such as Zacatlán, San Juan de los Llanos, Cholula, Atlixco, Izúcar de Matamoros and Tehuacán, among others. The presence of volcanoes such as Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl, Pico de Orizaba and Cofre de Perote also stands out. Considered the father of Mexican cartography, García Cubas was a member of the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics and during the Second Mexican Empire received the Order of Guadalupe from the hands of Maximilian of Habsburg. Subsequently he was decorated with the Legion of Honour of France. He was the author of very famous works on Mexico such as the Atlas Geográfico, Estadístico e Histórico de la República Mexicana (1857), the Álbum del Ferrocarril Mexicano (1878), made in collaboration with the notable artist Casimiro Castro, and the Atlas Pintoresco e Histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (1885), among others. The latter was so notable that it earned him the recognition of various European geographical societies.