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Description

Rare separately pubished sea chart of a Strailt of Iloilo, between Panay and Guimaras, published by the Spanish Admiralty circa 1864. 

The map captures the region at the moment in time when it was about to be transformed to one of the leading sugar producing regions in the Philippines.

The map is dated in teh same year as the Jaro Cathedral was built and the year the district was named a diocese by Pope Pius IX, by order of Mariano Cuartero, first bishop of Jaro.  

Direccion Hidrografica de Madrid Biography

The Dirección de Hidrografía, or the Directorate of Hydrographic Works, was established in 1797. Its roots were in the Casa de Contratación, founded in 1503 in Sevilla, which housed all the charts of the Spanish Empire and oversaw the creation and maintenance of the padrón real, the official master chart. The Casa, now in Cadiz, was shuttered in 1790, but Spain still needed a hydrographic body. In response, the Dirección was created in 1797. One of its first projects was the publication of charts from the Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794). The Dirección oversaw not only publication, but also surveying. The Dirección was abolished in the early twentieth century, when their work was distributed to other organizations.