Cuevas Aguirre y Espinosa, Joseph Francisco de
Joseph Francisco de Cuevas Aguirre y Espinosa (1679 - 1759) was a Mexican lawyer for the Real Audiencia, and city Regidor in Mexico City. He is occasionally identified as an engineer, but he would be entirely unknown, but for his having been ordered by the Viceroy to report on the findings of an engineering survey attempting to contend with the Mexican capital's serious, long-standing problems with drainage and flooding. Whether a career lawyer or career engineer, Aguirre y Espinosa does not appear to have produced any maps of his own, but his efforts on the drainage report resulted in the first printing of any map by Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, whose manuscript of the region around Mexico City - produced around 1691 - would remain the best available for most of the 18th century, despite its many imprecisions.
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