The “Plan for the city of St. Augustine, Florida and its surroundings, located at 29 degrees and 50 minutes north” by Antonio de Arredondo in 1737. An ideal for a city in 18th century Spanish Florida

espanolEl siglo XVIII vera, con la instauracion del real cuerpo de ingenieros militares en el ano 1711, el advenimiento de una nueva figura que transformara las caracteristicas graficas de la cartografia espanola. El ingeniero militar, dotado de nuevas herramientas cartograficas normalizadas, iniciara un proceso de definicion objetiva de los territorios espanoles del Nuevo Mundo, que le aleja de las cartografias y planimetrias urbanas y militares que caracterizaron el proceso de conquista y colonizacion los dos siglos anteriores. Para estudiar las caracteristicas de estas nuevas cartografias se analiza el plano de Antonio de Arredondo para la ciudad de San Agustin de la Florida, ya que el mismo ejemplifica las caracteristicas graficas y los principios teoricos que sustentaron el proceso de implantacion del ingeniero militar espanol en el Nuevo Mundo en las primeras decadas del siglo XVIII. EnglishThe 18th Century saw, with the establishment of the Royal Engineers Corps in 1711, the arrival of a new figure which would transform the graphical characteristics of Spanish Cartography. The military engineer, equipped with new regulatory cartographic tools, began the process of objectively defining Spanish territories in the New World, which would be a move away from the urban and military cartography and planimetries which were characteristic of the conquest and colonialization of the previous centuries. As a basis for the study of this new cartography, we will analyse Antonio de Arredondo’s plan for the city of San Agustin de la Florida (St. Augustine, Florida), given that it perfectly exemplifies the graphical characteristics and theoretical principles which fostered the process of the establishment of the Spanish military engineer in the New World in the opening decades of the 18th Century.