Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860 in Popayán â 1914 in Barranquilla) was a Colombian geographer, cartographer and historian.
Life and work
His major works are the Nueva GeografÃÂa de Colombia (1888, 1892 and 1901; final version published in 1902) and the Atlas completo de geografÃÂa colombiana (1906âÂÂ1910), 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 anarchist French geographer Elisée Reclus based his chapter on Colombia in his Nouvelle Géographie Universelle on the works of Vergara y Velasco.
Publications
- Nueva GeografÃÂa de Colombia (1888, 1892 and 1901)
- 1818 (Guerra de Independencia), Bogotá, Imprenta Nacional (1897)
- Atlas completo de geografÃÂa colombiana (1906âÂÂ1910)
- Memoria sobre la construcción de una Nueva carta geográfica de Colombia y de un Atlas completo de geografÃÂa colombiana, Bogotá, Imprenta Eléctrica (1906)
- Tratado de metodologÃÂa y crÃÂtica histórica y elementos de cronologÃÂa colombiana, Bogotá, Imprenta Eléctrica (1907)
- Archivos Nacionales: ÃÂndice analÃÂtico, metódico y descriptivo, Bogotá, Imprenta Nacional (1913)
Bibliography
- Julio César Vergara y Vergara (1952): Don Antonio de Vergara Azcarate y sus descendientes, Madrid, Imprenta J. Pueyo.
- José AgustÃÂn Blanco Barros (1995): Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco: "Historiador, Geógrafo, Cartógrafo", In: BoletÃÂn de Historia y Antigüedades, Bogotá, Vol. LXXXII, Nú 791.
- José AgustÃÂn Blanco Barros (2006): El general Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco y sus obras, Bogotá, Academia Colombiana de Historia.
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