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SPAIN (Republic) / ESPAÑA (República).

Expedition of Captain Francisco Iglesias to the Amazon.
Antique map of the Amazon river in South America, and Caribbean Islands.
Stamp issued on 12.10.1935.
Face value: 30 cents of Spanish peseta.
Printing: Recess.
Printed by Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, Madrid.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 34 x 27 mm.

Catalogues
- Edifil No. 694.
- Michel No. 646A.
- Scott No. 556.
- StampWorld No. 634.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 785.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 539.

Francisco Iglesias (1900-1973) was a pioneer of aviation, military, engineer and Spanish explorer. In 1932, the Madrid government approved the most relevant scientific project in republican Spain, an expedition to the Amazon, a mission that it entrusted to Iglesias. While he was preparing the expedition in Peru, with the help of the emigrant and bookseller Cesáreo Mosquera, the philologist Lucas Espinosa and the adventurer Alfonso Graña, who was already living among the Shuar Indians of the Peruvian jungle, he participated as a mediator in the international conflict between Colombia and Peru, the so-called Leticia Incident, supporting the Peruvian positions before the League of Nations. However, the outbreak of the Spanish civil war in July 1936 made it impossible for this expedition to take place.