A section of the Brazilian coastline, one the first maps of Brazil based on Dutch rather than Portuguese interests. Kaspar van Baerle was commissioned to document the coastal provinces of Brazil. The resulting work, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia, was published by Johannes Blaeu in 1647, and contained many maps of the region. The scene at upper right depicts the commercially important sugar cane industry, which used Africans as slave labor.