Map of the Provinces of Nicaragua and Costa Rica
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  • Jacques Bellin (1703-72) was a prolific cartographer attached to the French Marine Office. In 1764, he published Le Petit Atlas Maritime (Small maritime atlas), a work in five volumes containing 581 maps. Nicaragua and Costa Rica, shown in this map from the second volume of the atlas, were at the time provinces of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, part of the Spanish Empire. The left side of the image shows the title page of Bellin’s atlas. Nicaragua and Costa Rica both declared independence from Spain in 1821.

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  • Paris

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  • Carte des provinces de Nicaragua et Costa Rica

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  • 1 map ; 19 x 16 centimeters

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