Location Searches

Searches may be performed by location alone, or combined with parameters for date (Century or Year) or Source text, Word, String, Headword, or any combination thereof. Searches must be performed using accents and diacritics. For help with typing accents, see the Using Accents Help Guide.

Date and location information for each citation comes from the CD-ROM publication, as described in its User’s Guide, here cited: “When a dating is approximate, it is noted as such. The question of geographical location for the sources of a lexicon which spans five centuries of Spanish American history warrants special consideration. First, the exact location (or locations) where a particular source was produced may not be known, and so the locations that appear are designed to be more or less specific: both Buenos Aires and Argentina, Guadalajara and México, and so on, are used. Second, over the time span covered, nations have been formed, borders have shifted, and geopolitical designations have changed. It is not possible in all cases to identify the location in which an early text was produced with a modern equivalent. The editors have consequently respected the place names which appeared in the original versions of the LHA, which corresponded to the contemporary designation. Thus, for example, material from before the twentieth century contains such place names as Tierra Firme or Nuevo Reino de Granada” (User’s Guide 8).

The Location search, as implemented on the web-site, has a drop-down auto-fill option. As the user begins to type in the place name that he/she wishes to find, there will appear below the selection box a scrolling list of locations contained in the LHA corpus, up to 10 at a time, in alphabetical order, to help the user identify if the place on which he/she would like to search is contained within the corpus. If after entering the complete place name, the user still does not see the location that he/she is interested in finding, then that place, named as such, is not found in the corpus, since, as described above, place names are not always specific. The user should check the full list of locations provided below for other possible options.

If the user wishes to search on more than one location in a single search, he/she may type in the locations (using accents), each separated by a comma. When the user begins to type in the first location, auto-fill options will appear. For subsequent locations combined in the same search, auto-fill does not provide options. The user must know the location name he/she wishes to input. For all possible locations on which one may search, see the list below.

Users should be aware that searches may provide a large number of citations. A simple search, such as Location: México, will provide over 55,000 results. Thus, the user might consider limiting a search by combining it with other parameters of date, source text, etc. However, even some combined searches might produce significant output.

For example, a search on Location: México with Century: 16, will display 11,532 results, which might still require further limits. If the search does produce a large number of results, the program will pause after 500 results and prompt the user if he/she wishes to continue or abort the current search. In such instances, the user may wish to abort the search and consider limiting the search by either number (see Limit Search Help Guide) or combine the search with parameters for certain years (see Chronological Search Help Guide), Word, String or Headword, to provide a more manageable selection.

Search results are displayed in the following form, in chronological order:

• First, in brackets, the date and place of the source text cited.
• Second, the text citation as given in the Boyd-Bowman Corpus (see Citation Help Guide for a description of how citations are presented).
• Third, in brackets, the 3-character abbreviation for the text title, followed typically by the pages within the text where the citation is found (for complete listing of text abbreviations, see the Source Abbreviation and Text Title link on the Help tab or the link next to the Source search box on the home page). If there is an associated volume number for the text source, that number will precede, if relevant, the page number.

For example:

[c. 1575 México] sería adúltera y moriría estruxada la cabeça entre dos piedras [BSG 4, 5]

This is the original information from the Léxico hispanoamericano published on CD-ROM. Copyright on all data is held by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.

 

A list of all locations, documented in the CD-ROM publication, on any of which the user may search or combine with other searches, follows.

Locations
Acapulco
América
Arequipa
Argentina
Asunción
Baja California (México)
Barranquilla
Bogotá
Bolivia
Bolivia (Alto Perú)
Buenos Aires
Cali
California
Caracas
Cartagena
Cauca
Charcas
Chiapas
Chihuahua
Chile
Chocó
Chuquisaca
Ciudad de Guatemala
Ciudad de México
Ciudad de Santo Domingo
Coahuila (México)
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cuenca
Cuyo
Cuzco
Darién
Durango (México)
Ecuador
Florida
Guadalajara
Guanajuato (México)
Guatemala
Guayaquil
Guerrero (México)
Hidalgo (México)
Honduras
Huamanga
Indias
Isla Margarita
Islas Malvinas
Jalisco
Jamaica
La Habana
La Paz
Lima
Maracaibo
Mazatlán
Medellín
Mendoza
Mérida
México
México-Toledo
Michoacán
Mompós
Nicaragua
Nombre de Dios
Nueva Galicia
Nueva Granada
Nueva Vizcaya (México)
Nuevo León
Nuevo México
Nuevo Reino de Granada
Oaxaca
Panamá
Pánuco (Nueva España)
Paraguay
Pasto
Perú
Popayán
Potosí
Puebla
Puerto Rico
Querétaro (México)
Quito
República Dominicana
Río de la Plata
Río Hacha
Salvador
San Luis Potosí (México)
Santa Marta
Santo Domingo
Sinaloa
Sonora
Tabasco
Tamaulipas (México)
Tampico
Tierra Firme
Tlaxcala (México)
Tocaima
Tucumán
Tunja
Turbaco
Uruguay
Venezuela
Veracruz
Veragua
Yucatán
Zacatecas