Exactitud en posición y análisis de la cartografía en posición y análisis de la cartografía realizada por la Comisión Corográfica

Abstract

The importance of the work carried out by the chorographic commission under the command of Engineer Agustín Codazzi marked a milestone in the history of cartography at all levels; global, regional and national. With an avant-garde attitude of inventorying and classifying the Colombian territory, the factors present in it (inhabitants, flora and fauna), the variety of climates according to the province; I provide valuable high-quality information that was not fully valued at the time, such as the cartographic maps of 28 of the provinces that made up the political division of the country. The incredible feat carried out by the expedition for the time is highlighted; with limited resources and the few technological advances present at the time of executing it. For the present investigation, 4 of the provinces mapped by Codazzi and his team were selected; Córdova, Socorro, Tunja and Velez. Recovered from the documentary base of the General Archive of the Nation that provided the working group with excellent quality knowledge by studying each of these plans in detail. An analysis of the accuracy in the precision of the coordinates extracted from the cartographic base was carried out, relying on the ArcGIS and Excel software tools to correctly collect the information and its subsequent analysis in order to arrive at the results.