. The earth and its inhabitants ... ters separating the Apure from theArauca. San Fernando de Atabapo—Bolivar. In the upper Orinoco valley, and on the divide between that river and theRio Negro, there are no centres of population beyond such wretched hamlets asEsmeralda, Yarita, and Pimichin, frequently mentioned in books of travel, becauseof their position at important confluences or portages. At the confluence of the Atabapo and Orinoco, 776 feet above sea-level,San Fernando de Atabapo, founded by Solano in 1757, occupies even a moreimportant position than San Fernando de Apure. From this po
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ters separating the Apure from theArauca. San Fernando de Atabapo—Bolivar. In the upper Orinoco valley, and on the divide between that river and theRio Negro, there are no centres of population beyond such wretched hamlets asEsmeralda, Yarita, and Pimichin, frequently mentioned in books of travel, becauseof their position at important confluences or portages. At the confluence of the Atabapo and Orinoco, 776 feet above sea-level,San Fernando de Atabapo, founded by Solano in 1757, occupies even a moreimportant position than San Fernando de Apure. From this point radiate asmany as six navigable highways, southwards by the Atabapo to Brazil, east- 122 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. wards to the upper Orinoco, north-eastwarcls to the Ventuari, northwards tothe middle Orinoco, westwards by the Guaviare to Colombia, and south-westwards to the Inirida basin. But so insignificant is the local traffic Fig. 43.—Ramifying Streams on the Beazh and Venezuelan 1 : 4,000, 62 Miles. that the 500 inhabitants of San Fernando suffice for all its present require- ments. The old Indian settlements, which give their names to the Maipures andAttires rapids, have all but disappeared. Maipures, standing on the left bankof the Orinoco, is now included in Colombian teriitory, although the tow-
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