. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 94 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. It has its source in the upland valleys of the Colombian Andes south of the Guaviare or Western Orinoco ; its course follows the same direction as the main stream between San Joaquim and Barcellos ; the beds of both rivers also present the same geological characters, while both descend to the lower reaches through a series of granite falls and rapids. Above the Jurupari, highest of these falls, the river, here as " white " as the Solimoes and inhabited by the same species of fishes, traverses the level, treeless
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 94 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. It has its source in the upland valleys of the Colombian Andes south of the Guaviare or Western Orinoco ; its course follows the same direction as the main stream between San Joaquim and Barcellos ; the beds of both rivers also present the same geological characters, while both descend to the lower reaches through a series of granite falls and rapids. Above the Jurupari, highest of these falls, the river, here as " white " as the Solimoes and inhabited by the same species of fishes, traverses the level, treeless plains at the foot of the Andes. The Uaupes was ascended to its source by Jesuino Cordeiro in 1854, and since then its lower reaches have been visited by Wallace, Stradelli, and Coudreau, all of whom assert that its mean discharge greatly exceeds that of the Upper Rio Negro. During the floods Fjo-. 31. IJAtrPES Confluence and Rio Negeo CATAEAcrs Scale 1 : 1,500, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
Size: 1376px × 1815px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectgeography
