Francisco Coello
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Francisco Coello de Portugal y Quesada was a Spanish cartographer and military man.
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Cover of the Atlas de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, his magnum opus.
Project of general navigation lines and railroads of 1855.
Francisco Coello, circa 1882
Provincial map of Zamora, from the 1863 Atlas de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, scale 1:200,000.
Provincial map of Avila, from the 1864 Atlas de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, scale 1:200,000.Awards 2
Connected to Francisco 6
François de FossaAlso won Order of Saint Ferdinand
José Rodrigo RodrigoAlso won Grand Cross of the Cross of Military Merit with White Decoration
Adolfo Rincón de Arellano GarcíaAlso won Grand Cross of the Cross of Military Merit with White Decoration
Philippe HigonetAlso won Order of Saint Ferdinand
Arsenio Linares y PomboAlso won Order of Saint Ferdinand
Eduardo González-GallarzaAlso won Grand Cross of the Cross of Military Merit with White DecorationAbout this person
Francisco Coello de Portugal y Quesada was a Spanish cartographer and military man. Author of Atlas de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, his most important work, he was a member of the Royal Academy of History, the Royal Society of Geography and the General Board of Statistics, in which he participated in the planning of a general cadastre for Spain. He also held the title of Knight of the Order of San Fernando and the Cross of Military Merit. He was one of the most outstanding cartographers in Spain in the 19th century. He retired from the Army with the rank of colonel.
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