A Risk, a Lake, a River – the River São Francisco and your Cartographic Images in Old Maps of Brazil and of Americas
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This study was accomplished through the reading of copies from ancient maps of Brazil, South America and the Americas, between the years of 1500 and 1800, ant it is a part of the project Ethnocartographies of São Francisco. From
this study, it is possible to recognize how, from an ancient map to another, the São Francisco river was registered and
described by different cartographers along the earlier years of colonization, comparing it with other design, traces, sinuous drawings and representations. It is composed of a geographic and anthropologic analysis of how the São Franciso
river was represented in ancient maps, since the arrival of the fi rst europeans to the Americas.
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