Premières représentations du Huyapari (alias Orénoque) (1498-1552) : la quête de Meta et ses revers
The great American rivers have been more obstacles than channels of communication for the Spanish or Portuguese conquerors. Their gigantism and the Amazonian natural environment with regard to the Amazon and the Orinoco, provoked a scrambled geographical discourse, mostly unfortunate experiences, sp...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2020
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| Sumario: | The great American rivers have been more obstacles than channels of communication for the Spanish or Portuguese conquerors. Their gigantism and the Amazonian natural environment with regard to the Amazon and the Orinoco, provoked a scrambled geographical discourse, mostly unfortunate experiences, speculative mapping and the proliferation of auriferous mirages. The hydrographic and ethnographic realities of the Orinoco basin have been perceived in a fragmentary, uncertain way, sometimes even absorbed by its giant neighbor during the whole of the 16th century: it is the emergence of this confused fluvial geography that we wish to analyze, in order to show both the achievements, the expectations and the setbacks. |
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