Pedro Teixeira Albernaz

Pedro Teixeira Albernaz was a Portuguese cartographer born in 1595 in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal.

[1] Pedro was appointed with his brother to make a map of Straits of Magellan and St. Vincent.

Teixeira's map is made of twenty individual folios.

They were then printed by Jan and Jacques van Veerle in Antwerp in 1656.

The map and writing along the border show Spain at the height of its power.