The earth and its inhabitants .. . ng favoured bya mild climate, rich vegetation, and romanticscener). Paclio, near the sources ot the RioNegro, a place well known to orchid collectors,is at present the chief centre of the hardwareindustry, thanks to the neighbouring last village in the department of Tolimaon the left bank of the Magdalena bears thefully justified name of Biicna Viata. 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 Xegro confluence. iV«/r,on the le
The earth and its inhabitants .. . ng favoured bya mild climate, rich vegetation, and romanticscener). Paclio, near the sources ot the RioNegro, a place well known to orchid collectors,is at present the chief centre of the hardwareindustry, thanks to the neighbouring last village in the department of Tolimaon the left bank of the Magdalena bears thefully justified name of Biicna Viata. 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 Xegro confluence. iV«/r,on the left bank farther north, was formerlythe only port of the province of Antioquia onthe Magdalena. Lying above the Anr/ontura( Narrows ), it was a natural depot for the traffic of the Rio Nare, which isnavigable for boats as far as I^litas, 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. 7-*- 74*50 11 MUe. TOPOGRAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 189 two towns of Rioiifigro and MarinUIa, which are familiar names in the revolu-tionary annals of the country, and which give their names to the two hostilefactions of the Eionegreros (Reds, or Liberals), and Marinillos (Blues, Godos, or Conservatives). Puerto Berrio—Tunja—Boyaca. Pnerfo 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 Quiebra Pass (6,560 feet) north-west-wards to the Porce vallej, and thence southwards to Medellin
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