En los albores del catastro parcelario territorial en España: los mapas topográficos de Granada y su área metropolitana (1819-1820)

The Topographic map of the city of Granada and its municipal district was accomplished in 1819 with accuracy and graphical quality as a pioneering work in the area of the land registries maps in Spain. It was conducted by Francisco Dalmau (1766-1824), illustrate mathematic who accomplished numerous titles ending with Headmaster of the Statistics of the Province of Granada. One year later he directed 18 maps more, corresponding to some towns and villages in Granada district. These documents are previous in some decades to other similar works done in Spanish cities. This article gives a general layout of the agrarian land of the surroundings of Granada from the global analysis of these cartographic documents and their geographic data that, in spite of have been promoted out of the military scope, are preserved in the Army’s Geographic Centre.