Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860 in

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– 1914 in

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) was a Colombian

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and

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Life and work

His major works are the '' Nueva Geografía de Colombia'' (1888, 1892 and 1901; final version published in 1902) and the ''Atlas completo de geografía colombiana'' (1906–1910), through which he won the Charles Manoir price of the Paris Geographical Society. Vergara was an erudite and critical writer, and his geographical thoughts did not fit within the parameters of the dominant geographical ideologies in the country of his time; his work serves as a starting point for studies of the history of territorial formation in Colombia. The

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French geographer Elisée Reclus 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)

Bibliography

Julio César Vergara y Vergara Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to: *Julio (given name) *Julio (surname) *Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation albu ...

(1952): ''Don Antonio de Vergara Azcarate y sus descendientes'', Madrid, Imprenta J. Pueyo. * José Agustín Blanco Barros (1995)
Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco: "Historiador, Geógrafo, Cartógrafo"
In: ''Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades'', Bogotá, Vol. LXXXII, Nº 791. * José Agustín Blanco Barros (2006): ''El general Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco y sus obras'', Bogotá, Academia Colombiana de Historia.

References

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