" Central America/Caribbean: 1913 Detailed map ... Poster

This beautiful map of Central America and the Caribbean features ocean bathymetry and colorful county borders, including overlapping colors demonstrating boundaries in dispute. Published in February 1913 one year before the completion of the Panama Canal, this work contains an abundance of unique details including principal lighthouses, U.S. Consular representatives, steamship routes, and coaling stations. • Inset map of the Panama Canal with a cross-section showing the canal elevation • Cities, towns, and capitals including country capitals, state capitals, and colonial capitals • Steamship routes with distances in nautical miles and railroads, both operating and under construction • Submarine telegraph lines and wireless telegraph stations • Coaling stations, ruins, and principal lighthouses • Ocean bathymetry • U.S. Consular representatives