Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla

South America map by Juan de la Cruz, 1775

Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla was a Spanish cartographer. For many years, Cano was the cartographer of the king Carlos III of Spain.

He made maps of Spain and of the Spanish possessions in Latin America. ^[1] He is especially known for a 1775 map of South America. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. WorldCat author listing
2. Ristow, Walter W, and Cano O. J. Cruz. The Juan De La Cruz Map of South America, 1775. Evanston, Ill, 1962 in "Festschrift: Clarence F. Jones," ed. by Merle C. Prunty, Jr. Northwestern University Studies in Geography, no. 6, 1962. OCLC 39063331
3. Smith, Thomas R. The Juan De La Cruz Cano Map of South America, 1771-1775; the Internal Evidence of Its States and Publications. S.l, n.d.. OCLC 84373402
4. Vázquez, de A. I. Don Juan De La Cruz, Su Mapa De América Meridional (1775) Y Las Fronteras Del Reino De Chile. Santiago: Instituto de Investigaciones del Patrimonio Territorial de Chile, Universidad de Santiago, 1984 OCLC 15695566
5. Bornholt, Jens P, William H. Hempstead, Philippe Vandermaelen, and Cano O. J. Cruz. Cuatro Siglos De Expresiones Geográficas Del Istmo Centroamericano, 1500-1900 / Four Centuries of Geographic Expressions of the Central American Isthmus. Guatemala: Universidad Francisco Morroquín, 2007. OCLC 190861309; ISBN   9789992279953