VESPUCCI IN THE TERRITORY THAT IS NOW COLOMBIA

Abstract

The Mexican historian Raquel Urroz resurrects in this essay the figure of the sailor and cosmographer Americus Vespucci and his voyage accomplished in 1499-1500 along the eastern South American coast, the first of a European upon Colombian soil and an essential chapter in the configuration of the continental space of America. In this trip he names the toponimia of seven places in Colombian coast and makes astronomical measures to mark the Western Hemisphere from American land.