El estrecho de Magallanes como antesala del Pacífico: evolución cartográfica y toponimia entre los siglos XVI y comienzos del XVIII

Abstract

The Strait of Magellan was one of the geographical areas which generated more attention in the cartographers during the XVI and XVII centuries. In fact, for the Chilean case, together with Chiloe and Valdivia, the Magellanic region is the most represented. The reasons are both navigational and strategic purposes. That means that the surviving examples on public and private archives of several countries are comparatively abundant. The present study shows a new piece, which forms part of a navigational chart or «Derrotero» that is conserved in the Historical Archive of the Peruvian Navy, whose dating is roughly the early XVII century, although showing geographical representations from the previous century.