The History of a Periphery2025 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art Arvey Foundation, College Art Association An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada. During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Choc, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granadas economy yet this Pacific frontier in todays Colombia was considered the periphery of the periphery. Infamous for its fierce,