General Map of the Republic of Nicaragua, 1858. (Mapa General De La Republica Nicaragua)

Old map of Nicaragua.

day León). The map shows the international borders with Honduras and Costa Rica, department borders, roads, planned railroad lines, rivers, mines, ruins, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Relief is shown by hachures. Two distance scales are given: Castilian leagues and English miles (one Castilian league = 4.18 kilometers; one mile = 1.61 kilometers). Nicaragua was long considered a possible location for an isthmian canal. In 1874 Sonnenstern published Report of the Nicaragua Route for an Interoceanic Ship Canal, which was commissioned by the Nicaraguan minister of public works and published in the United States by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Created by G. Kraetzer, J. Rau, Maximilian Von Sonnenstern in 1858.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale 1:700,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 54 x 74 centimeters.
• Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
• Content in Spanish.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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J. Rau

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Maximilian Von Sonnenstern

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