José Custodio de Sá e Faría

José Custodio de Sáa e Faría (Lisbon, Portugal, between 1710 y 1723 - Luján, Virreinato del Río de la Plata (now Argentina) 1792) was a Portuguese cartographer, geographer, architect and engineer, military and former governor of the state of Rio Grande del Sur, who captured by the expedition of Pedro de Cevallos defects to the Spanish side, residing ever since in Buenos Aires, where he made important constructions for the city. The book deals with his life and his work in Portugal, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay in the 18th century. He is the most important cartographer of the Boundary Demarcation Party in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. He will go on to work for the Spanish crown and will carry out important architectural, urban planning and engineering works in Buenos Aires and Montevideo with enormous scientific and technical capacity for his time.