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Missionary Cartography of the Amazon after the Treaty of Madrid (1750): A Jesuit's Contribution to the Demarcation of Imperial Frontiers

The Spanish-Portuguese treaty signed in Madrid in 1750 (The Treaty of Madrid) was a turning point not only in the colonial history of Brazil, but also in the history of Jesuit cartography of that area. In 1753 the Spanish-Portuguese demarcation in the Amazon region was entrusted to a group of military engineering officers who, under the king's orders, were joined by a royal mathematician and astronomer from Croatia, the Jesuit Ignatius Szentmártonyi (1718-1793).

Amazon River; Rio Negro; missionary cartography; Jesuits; 18th century; Ignatius Szentmártony

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