View of Cefala
Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA): Gezicht in vogelvlucht op,Cefala (Sofala?). Notes on reverse 50 probably refers to an old chart number. The picture shows a bare landscape with in the centre an island with on it a fortress and a number of houses. The island is surrounded by the river; on the mainland some houses are also shown.
- Date
- c. 1665
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Johannes Vingboons (land surveyor / mapmaker)
- Place
- Mozambique
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- atlas page
- Original size
- 2,400 × 1,785 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.
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Credit line
"View of Cefala" (c. 1665). Johannes Vingboons (land surveyor / mapmaker), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6147-NA_View_of_Cefala.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 235197.
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