Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (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
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ild climate, rich vegetation, and romanticscener3\ PacJio, near the sources of the RioNegro, a place well known to orchid collectors,is at present the chief centre of the hardwareindustry, thanks to the neighbouring iron-mines.The last village in the department of Toliraaon the left bank of the Magdalena bears thefully justified name of Buena Vista. It is en-circled by magnificent woodlands, and separatedfrom the province of Antioquia by the lovelyRio Miel (Timona), which reaches the Magda-lena just below the Negro confluence. Nare,74° 50 on the left bank farther north, was formerly liMiie. the only port of the province of Antioquia on the Magdalena. Lying above the Angostura( Narrows ), it was a natural depot for the trafiic of the Rio Nare, which isnavigable for boats as far as 1st if as, at the confluence of the Nus. But itsunhealthy climate, and the selection of another riverine station more favourablysituated lower down, hastened the ruin of Nare. In the upper Nare basin are the
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W.oFG. 74°51 ÏOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 189 two towns of Hioiipgro and MariniUa, which are familiar names in the revolu-tionary annals of the country, and which give their names to the two hostilefactions of the Rionegreros (Reds, or Liberals), and Marinillos (Blues, Godos, or Conservatives ). Puerto Berrio—Tunja—Boyaca. Puerto Berrio, on the left bank of the Magdalena below Nare, dates only fromthe year 1875, when this site was chosen as the most convenient terminus for thefuture railway which is to ascend from the river to Medellin, and thence ramifyover the Antioquian plateau. The first section, traversing the low-lying malariousriverine district, has already been completed for a distance of 30 miles, at an alti-tude of 2,620 feet, in the mineral territory watered by the Nus affluent of the Nare,whence the line will be continued over the Quiebia Pass (6,560 feet) north-west-wards to the Porce valley, and thence southwards to Medellin. The San Bartolome, which joins the left bank

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