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NUEVO ATLAS NACIONAL DE MEXICO. Compiled by the INSTITUTE DE GEOGRAFIA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO.xii and 430 pp.; maps, bibliog. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2007. $275.00 (paper), ISBN 9789703250479.
All Mexicans can be very proud of this new national atlas. It is simply superb--in the massive range of data included, in the cartographic modes selected to portray the data, and, most important, in the quality of the printed product. Few national atlases can match this volume.
A team of some 153 authors and collaborators under the general direction of Atlantida Coll-Hurtado and the technical direction of Jose Maria Casado Izquierdo labored for more than five years to produce the 726 maps and 353 graphics in the atlas. Eight distinct dependencies of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico were involved, as were more than thirty national and foreign institutions, both public and private. This Nuevo atlas nacional replaces the one produced by the university in 1990-1992, which in turn replaced the Atlas nacional of 1919.
At first glance one has to be impressed by both the size and the weight of the new atlas: 50 X 35 centimeters and some 6.6 kilograms; a large and sturdy desk...
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