Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla was a Spanish cartographer. For many years, Cano was the cartographer of the king Carlos III of Spain. He made maps of

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and of the Spanish possessions in

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. WorldCat author listing
/ref> He is especially known for a 1775 map of South America.Bornholt, Jens P, William H. Hempstead, Philippe Vandermaelen, and Cano O. J. Cruz. Cuatro Siglos De Expresiones Geográficas Del Istmo Centroamericano, 1500-1900 / Four Centuries of Geographic Expressions of the Central American Isthmus. Guatemala: Universidad Francisco Morroquín, 2007. OCLC 190861309;

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