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Lowry drew on a number of locations in Mexico to create the imaginative geography of Quauhnahuac.
Atlas of the World and Gazetteer
The Church at Tepotzlán
Pico de Orizabe
The town of Guanajuato and 'las Momias' Above: The interior of Santa Prisca Cathedral, Taxco, the altars of which "are of a churrigueresque (overloaded) style" (UTV, 299). In his "Letter to Johnathan Cape" (61), Lowry drew an explicit parallel between the design of this church and that of his own novel.
Lowry's sketched map of the road to his fictional town Tomalín, located near Popocatepetl. Image courtesy UBC Special Collections.