{"id":5252,"date":"2025-10-11T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:38:48","slug":"colonial-map-of-africa-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-antiguos\/mapa-colonial-de-africa-1908\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial map of Africa (1908)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-969x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mapa colonial de \u00c1frica (1908)\" class=\"wp-image-5294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-969x1024.jpg 969w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-11x12.jpg 11w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-450x476.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-768x812.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-1453x1536.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1112-Mapa-colonial-de-Africa-1908-1938x2048.jpg 1938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Este mapa, publicado por la editorial cartogr\u00e1fica Wells Missionary en 1908, muestra el reparto colonial de \u00c1frica por las distintas colonias europeas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El mapa destaca por ser uno de los pocos de la \u00e9poca de estar realizado sobre tela. El trazado de las fronteras est\u00e1 realizado con pluma y tinta, y la coloraci\u00f3n con una combinaci\u00f3n de acuarelas y pinturas de cera. Tanto la leyenda como los nombres de las distintas colonias y pa\u00edses est\u00e1n escritos de forma mec\u00e1nica, seguramente mediante sellos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tal como se indica en la leyenda, los colores indican qu\u00e9 potencias europeas pose\u00eda cada colonia, a la vez que indica los territorios libres y los pocos pa\u00edses independientes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>En rosa, las colonias brit\u00e1nicas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En amarillo, las colonias francesas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En gris, las colonias italianas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En verde, las colonias alemanas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En azul, las colonias espa\u00f1olas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En naranja, las colonias portuguesas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En negro, las colonias belgas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sin color, las regiones libres (como Liberia).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>En marr\u00f3n, los pa\u00edses independientes (como Etiop\u00eda o Marruecos).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Con la informaci\u00f3n hist\u00f3rica en la mano, este mapa contiene algunos errores importantes. Por ejemplo, incluye a Tr\u00edpoli (actual Libia) como una colonia alemana, a pesar de que esta regi\u00f3n estaba ocupada por el Imperio Otomano en 1908, y pocos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde pasar\u00eda a ser colonia italiana. Adem\u00e1s, tampoco aparece representada la Guinea Espa\u00f1ola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos se conservan dos copias de este mapa, ambas con distinta coloraci\u00f3n, lo que denota la producci\u00f3n manual de los mapas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fuentes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/87692246\/\">[Africa]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map, published by the cartographic publisher Wells Missionary in 1908, shows the colonial division of Africa by the different... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow66TFDA:productID":"","iawp_total_views":6673,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[270,89,597,1684],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapas-antiguos","tag-270","tag-africa","tag-colonialismo","tag-wells-missionary-map-co"],"aioseo_notices":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mapstodon.space\/@mapasmilhaud\/115354927601252002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}