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Digital Image: 1853 Cabrer Map of the Argentine Confederation, Uruguay, and Paraguay
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Title
Carta esferica de la confederacion Argentina y de las republicas del Uruguay y del Paraguay.
1853 (dated) 40 x 27 in (101.6 x 68.58 cm) 1 : 2000000
1853 (dated) 40 x 27 in (101.6 x 68.58 cm) 1 : 2000000
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Cartographer
Jose Maria Cabrer (1761 - 1836) was a Spanish military engineer and geographer. Born in Barcelona, the son of a military engineer Carlos Cabrer y Suñer. He studied engineering at the Royal Academy, and was a student of cartographer Félix de Azara (as well as his own father.) With the onset of the American Revolution, he set aside the academy to join Spanish naval efforts to support America against the British Empire. Initially targeted at Jamaica, he was sent instead to the Buenos Aires as attaché of the Royal Corps of Engineers to assist in demarcating the boundary of Spanish territory in South America with Brazil. He arrived there in 1781, then completing his training as a cartographer. In 1783, with the military rank of Captain, he surveyed the border region of the Banda Oriental, which would largely become Uruguay. He would become a commissioner and geographer of the second demarcation party under Diego de Alvear, reconnoitering the Paraná River and the course of the Uruguay River. In 1789, he surveyed the Pepirí Guazú River, the middle of the border set by the Treaty of San Ildefonso (1777). He returned to Buenos Aires as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1801, where he would choose to stay upon learning of the deaths in Spain of his father and brothers. He settled and married a barber's daughter over the objections of his superiors, who thought the match below him. The following twenty years seem to have been, politically, poorly navigated: following the Revolution of 1810 he was appointed to direct a mathematics academy, but the project did not proceed; he would be appointed secretary to the Argentine General Staff, but he refused the position. In 1831 following the estblishment of the Argentine Confederation, he accepted a posting to the Topographical Department, but did not enjoy the position long: He died in 1836 as the result of an improperly prescribed medicine. Although many of his boundary commission maps would be published, his superb 1802 he map of the La Plata region, including Uruguay and Paraguay, would not be published until 1853 in a Paris edition. More by this mapmaker...
References
OCLC 1264680769.