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Missionary Cartography of the Tarahumara (Mexico) With Special Regard to the Map of Ivan Rattkay

The first regional map of the Tarahumara Province (now in the Mexican state of Chihuahua) was compiled in 1683 by the Croatian Jesuit and missionary Ivan Rattkay. During his three-year stay as a missionary in Mexico (1680–1683), Rattkay visited almost every village in the Tarahumara Province. Based on this, in March 1683, he compiled a detailed description of this northern Mexico region, its peoples and its customs. He appended to this description a manuscript map compiled on the basis of own field observations and measurements. Because of the cruel fate that befell the author who died under mysterious circumstances in December 1683, map unfortunately remained unpublished. Based on the original research of the author, the paper analyzes the content of the 1683 map of the Tarahumara Province as the first regional map of that area. The paper further explores the map's possible role models and evaluates its importance for the history of cartography of Mexico as well as for the history of missionary cartography in general.

missionary cartography ; 17th Century ; Jesuits ; Mexico ; Ivan Rattkay

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