This time we are going to talk about maps. The most common are Political Maps, where countries, provinces, capitals and cities are delimited and the Physical Maps that identify the geographical features such as heights, plains, plateaus and mountains that constitute the relief of a region.
Also, according to your intention, the maps can be divided into Topographical or general purpose, to graphically represent geographical facts present on the earth's surface and the main elements that make it up, whether physical or human, such as communication routes, relief, hydrography, population centers, territorial demarcation. This type of map was the most used until the middle of the XNUMXth century since cartography at that time sought the greatest geographical knowledge in the world.
The Thematic Maps or of particular purpose have the objective is to locate specific characteristics or phenomena. The content covers various aspects such as historical, political or economic information; or natural phenomena such as climate, vegetation and geology. These can be of the Choropleth type, which show the spatial distribution of a phenomenon and locate with different colors or tracings the value that the represented geographical phenomenon occupies or Chorochromatic, which present qualitatively different areas, that is, they show the presence or absence of a certain characteristic in a given area.
Some examples of thematic maps are: Tourist, which include useful information for tourism, such as urban location and communication routes highlighting points of historical interest, landscape, etc. Statistical Map, represents descriptive data from the political and administrative territorial units or the Cadastral Map intended to represent the limits of land ownership.