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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62 Miles. that the 500 inhabitants of San Fernando suffice for all its present requirements. The old Indian settlements, which give their names to the Maipures and Attires rapids, have all but disappeared. Maipures, standing on the left bank of the Orinoco, is now included in Colombian territory, although the tow-
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-^ Q CAICAEA—BOLIVAE. 123 Fig. 44.—Maipttees aotj Atuees Rapids.Scale 1 : 600,000. path and portage remain free to both nations till the year 1911. Of JJruana (Urbana), the old Otomak mission, nothing remains except a few stakes stucking the ground, and a half-charred cross. Caicara is favourably situated near the great bend of the Orinoco, below the Apure and Apurito confluences. Here are exchanged manufactured goods for the cordage made of Chiquichique palm fibre (attalea funifera), stout hammocks of the mauritia palm and especially the tonka or sarrapia bean (dipteryx odorata), collected in the Cuchivero valley and used in Europe for importing an aromatic fragrance to tobacco. For a distance of 250 miles below Caicara, all the way to Ciudad Bolivar, there are no centres of population except a few obscure hamlets on the banks of the Orinoco. Bolivar itself, present capital of Venezuelan Guiana, has frequently changed its position since its foundation by the Jesuits on the right bank at the mo

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