Map of the District of Toro (1784)

This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tomás López de Vargas Machuca in 1784 and published posthumously by his sons in the “Geographical Atlas of Spain” from 1804. The map shows the district of Toro with the territorial boundaries prior to the reform of the provincial administration by Javier de Burgos in 1833.

At the end of the 18th century, the District of Toro was one of the three constituent districts of the former Province of Toro, along with the District of Reynosa and the District of Carrión. The three districts are completely isolated from each other, which is why Tomás López mapped them independently, as he notes on the map itself. It bordered to the north and east with the Province of Valladolid, to the south with the Province of Salamanca and to the west with the Province of Zamora.

The author also points out that some municipalities in the Partido de Toro, despite being part of it, were not contiguous, which is why the map does not include Becerril de Campos, which can be found as an enclave on the map of the Province of Palencia, northwest of the city of Palencia, nor Paradinas, which was located as an enclave between the provinces of Salamanca and Province of Ávila.

With the territorial reorganisation of 1833, the province of Toro disappeared and the District of Toro became part of the new Province of Zamora.

You can read more about Tomás López and his atlas in this article from the newsletter: Tomás López and the first detailed atlas of Spain (1804).