Chino California - "Tabula Californiae"

Published by Chino, 1702

Father Eusebio Francisco Kino(here, Chino), S. J., (Aug. 10, 1645 - March 15, 1711) was a Jesuit priest, missionary, explorer, map-maker, mathematician, and astronomer. Kino was a missionary who founded many missions and explored areas in southwestern North America. In 1681 he sailed as a missionary from Spain to what is now Mexico City, Mexico.

In 1691, he began a series of more than 40 expeditions and established that Lower California was not an island; it was a peninsula, the Baja Peninsula.This map was published in 1702 by this prolific explorer, mapmaker and writer.
 

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