Historic Map : Sanson Map of Guiana, Venezuela, and El Dorado, 1656, Vintage Wall Art Size:32in x 24in we may never know

we may never know

Slovenia's capital city

extends as far north as the Obskaia Sea and as far south as India

The Constellations of The Zodiac

This map depicts the known world at this time

Historic Map : Sanson Map of Guiana, Venezuela, and El Dorado, 1656, Vintage Wall Art Size:32in x 24in we may never knowThis is N. Sanson's remarkable 1656 map of the northwestern parts of South America , Lake Parima (Parime), and the route to El Dorado. Cartographically this map is loosely based upon cartographic conventions established by De Laet, however, Sanson introduced some interesting new ideas, including some of the first fixed political borders in this region. The map covers fro Isla Margarita and the Orinoco Delta eastward as far as Tampico and southwards as