Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco [SEP] place of death
Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco
Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860 in Popayán – 1914 in Barranquilla) was a colombian geographer, cartographer and historian.
Life and work.
His major works are the "Nueva Geografía de Colombia" (1888, 1892 and 1901; final version published in 1902) and the "Atlas completo de geografía colombiana" (1906–1910), through which he won the Charles Manoir price of the Paris Geographical Society.
Vergara was an erudite and critical writer, and his geographical thoughts did
Don Antonio de Vergara Azcarate y sus descendientes", Madrid, Imprenta J. Pueyo.
- José Agustín Blanco Barros (1995): Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco: “Historiador, Geógrafo, Cartógrafo”, In: "Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades", Bogotá, Vol. LXXXII, Nº 791.
- José Agustín Blanco Barros (2006): "El general Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco y sus obras", Bogotá, Academia Colombiana de Historia.