Chorographic Commission of Colombia
Comisión Corográfica de Colombia
- Date
- 1850-1859 · confidence high
- Place
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Credited to
- Agustín Codazzi, Manuel Ancízar, Henry Price and Carmelo Fernández
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
An official scientific expedition that travelled the country to map its provinces and describe its geography, population and resources with maps, plates and text. It produced one of the largest geographic and illustrated works of 19th-century Latin America.
Codazzi died in 1859 during the work and it remained unfinished; he had earlier mapped Venezuela (Atlas físico y político, 1840).
What it led to
- maps of the provinces of New Granada and of Colombia's geography
- a visual record of types and customs of Colombian regions