Viceroyalty of New Spain

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Map of the Americas in 1780 showing the Spanish and Portuguese viceroyalties. Spanish territories are shaded in green, including the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Viceroyalty of Peru, Viceroyalty of New Granada, and Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata. Portuguese territory, labeled as the Viceroyalty of Brazil, is shaded in purple. Borders between Spanish and Portuguese lands are marked, with amendments from 1750 and 1778 indicated. British territory is shown in the northern part of North America. Ma

Hand-drawn 1569 map of lands in Tultepec and Jaltocan, Mexico, showing buildings, fields, and plants, with Spanish text and indigenous pictorial symbols illustrating property boundaries.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Khan Academy - Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas.	Grace Young	Jul 04, 2026
	Add new Web site: Heritage History - Era SummaryNew Spain.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 20, 2026
	Add new Web site: Mayo Clinic - Psychotherapy.	Grace Young	Sep 26, 2025
	Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library - Gazing at the Spanish Viceroyalty from Afar.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jun 07, 2025
	Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from �A New Spain, 1521�1821".	Gloria Lotha	Nov 21, 2024
	Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas.	Gloria Lotha	Jul 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of New Mexico - Land and Water Rights in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 12, 2024
	Add new Web site: Digital Commons @ CSUMB - Spanish Viceroyalty [AD 1542/1769-1821].	Gloria Lotha	Feb 02, 2024
	Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas.	Aakanksha Gaur	Oct 10, 2023
	Map added.	Michele Metych	May 03, 2023
	Links added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 16, 2023
	Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 14, 2022
	Media added.	Kathleen Sheetz	May 31, 2013
	Add new Web site: The History Files - Spanish Colonies in the Americas (New Spain / Mexico).	Veenu Setia	Oct 01, 2010
	Article revised and updated.	Amy McKenna	Mar 22, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998