Category:Samuel Fritz, El Gran Río Marañón o Amazonas 1707

English: “This map, which at first glance is noteworthy for its relatively precise delineation of the contours and proportions of the South American continent, was the first to be drawn from firsthand experience, by one who had navigated the Amazon River from one end to the other. Other Europeans had traced the course of the river, but their maps were drawn from secondhand accounts” (Camila Loureiro Dias: Jesuit Maps and Political Discourse: The Amazon River of Father Samuel Fritz, in: The Americas, Vol. 69, No. 1 (July 2012), pp. 95-116, cite from p. 103).