¿Cartografía del Nuevo Mundo, o la América Invisible?

Abstract

Being the cartography represents the geographic environment, also is what manu- factures our imaginary of the territory. That is why the author raises this representa- tion to include and keep the Americas in the “maps of the world” of Cartography the New World, like the entrance towards the conquest and Westernization. 
This article includes maps of the sixteenth century, to develop the study and the debate in the design and creation as control strategies, and of power addressed through cartographic silences, framing in the contradiction to magnify and conceal the existence of these new territories, both for their communities and for the ene- mies. Motives that are identified and molding spatial reality, defining the modern man.