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Internet TLD. .eus. The Basque Country ( Basque: Euskal Herria; Spanish: País Vasco; French: Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people. [1] The Basque Country is located in the western Pyrenees, straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay .
Description. Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional ( IGN ), or National Geographic Institute is a Spanish government agency, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Public Works. Founded in 1870, it is the national mapping agency for Spain, together with the Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG). Since 2015, most of its products (including MTN50 and ...
The Spanish introduced a novelty in nautical cartography, with geographical maps having common stylistic representation of certain accidents and locations. The masterpiece of the Majorcan portolan charts is the Catalan Atlas made by Abraham Cresques in 1375, and kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.
It has an average altitude of 650 m. Its total area including Spanish island territories is 505,370 km 2 (195,124 sq mi) of which 499,542 km 2 (192,874 sq mi) is land and 5,240 km 2 (2,023 sq mi) is water. [2] It has the 30th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 1,039,233 km 2 (401,250 sq mi). Spain lies between latitudes 27° and 44° N, and ...
Iberian cartography, 1400–1600. Dating from 1375, the full 8 sheet Catalan Atlas made by Abraham Cresques, who was King Pere IV of Aragon 's cartographer. It was a gift from the King of the Crown of Aragon to the King of France. [1] Many later maps and "portolan charts" are copies of this original Catalan one.
MapQuest. Screenshot of MapQuest in use on a web browser. MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps.