Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita291recl (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Fig 129 - One of the three craters of Poas
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COSTA EICA. 295 districts petitioned the Central American Government to be annexed to Costa Rica until order could be restored. But the arrangement bas been maintained, and is now officially confirmed by treaty between the conterminous states. But in the San Juan basin on the Atlantic side, the conflict became more serious ; here the river is a natural highway of trade between the two republics, so that any frontier excluding Costa Rica from this outlet for her produce would have deeply affected her interests. The treaty of 1858, ratified in 1888 by the arbitration of the United States president, definitely settled this question, assign- ingf to Costa Rica the right bank from the delta to within three miles of the Fig. 129.—One of the Theee Ckatees of Poas.
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fortifications of Castillo ; then the line is deflected eight miles south and east of this place, beyond which it follows all the windings of the river and of Lake Nicaragua at a distance of two miles to the mouth of the Rio de la Flor, which enters the Pacific a little north of Salinas Bay. On the side of Colombia the southern frontier is clearly indicated by the long promontory of Punta Burica projecting into the Pacific, while on the north or Atlantic coast, Costa Rica claims Chiriqui Bay and its islands, including the Escudo de Yeragua off the coast. On the other hand, Colombia claims not only the whole of Chiriqui Bay, but even that of the Almirante as far as the Boca del Drago. The question has been submitted to the arbitration of Spain ; but in such matters diplomatic records are of less consequence than the wish of the jjoople.

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