Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco
Deceased Person
1860 – 1914
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Who was Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco?
Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco was a colombian geographer, cartographer and historian.
His major works are the Nueva Geografía de Colombia and the Atlas completo de geografía colombiana, through which he won the Charles Manoir price of the Paris Geographical Society.
The anarchist French geographer Elisée Reclus based his chapter on Colombia in his Nouvelle Géographie Universelle on the works of Vergara y Velasco.
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