Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (* Popayán

Popayán

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 1860 - Barranquilla

Barranquilla

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Colombia

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n geographer

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, cartographer and historian

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His major works are the Nueva Geografía de Colombia (1888, 1892 and 1901) and the Atlas completo de geografía colombiana (1906–1910), through which he won the Charles Manoir price of the Paris Geographical Society.

The anarchist French geographer Elisée Reclus

Élisée Reclus

Élisée Reclus , also known as Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes , over a period of nearly 20 years...

 based his chapter on Colombia in his Nouvelle Géographie Universelle on the works of Vergara y Velasco.

Publications

• Nueva Geografía de Colombia (1888, 1892 and 1901)
• 1818 (Guerra de Independencia), Bogotá, Imprenta Nacional (1897)
• Atlas completo de geografía colombiana (1906–1910)
• Memoria sobre la construcción de una Nueva carta geográfica de Colombia y de un Atlas completo de geografía colombiana, Bogotá, Imprenta Eléctrica (1906)
• Tratado de metodología y crítica histórica y elementos de cronología colombiana, Bogotá, Imprenta Eléctrica (1907)
• Archivos Nacionales: índice analítico, metódico y descriptivo, Bogotá, Imprenta Nacional (1913)

External links

• David Alejandro Ramírez Palacios, Proyecto de Archivo Digital Vergara y Velasco.