The earth and its inhabitants .. . d by theToachi, it forms the Chinto (Perucho or Esmeraldas, Emerald River ), anavigable stream, but little utilised, owing to the absence of riverine popula- 286 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. tions. Accordiii- to Teodoro Wolf, the Rio Esuuraldas has a drainage area of8,;3()(t square miles. A few sraill coast-streams follow southwards as far as the deep inlet at thehead of which debouches the copious Rio Guayas, which gives its name to theport of Guayaquil. The Uabahoyo, its chief headstreain, rises iu the Pacificcoast raiii^e, and, after collectiug numerou
The earth and its inhabitants .. . d by theToachi, it forms the Chinto (Perucho or Esmeraldas, Emerald River ), anavigable stream, but little utilised, owing to the absence of riverine popula- 286 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. tions. Accordiii- to Teodoro Wolf, the Rio Esuuraldas has a drainage area of8,;3()(t square miles. A few sraill coast-streams follow southwards as far as the deep inlet at thehead of which debouches the copious Rio Guayas, which gives its name to theport of Guayaquil. The Uabahoyo, its chief headstreain, rises iu the Pacificcoast raiii^e, and, after collectiug numerous tributaries on both sides, assumes theproportions of a considerable river below the so-called bo((c/jnn, or stores, at thelanding-stages, where travellers start for the ascent of the plateau. ICven beforeits junction with the Yaguuchi or Chimbo, which collects the running waters fromthe Chimbo heights, fed by the Chimborazo and Chauchan glaciers, the Baba- Fijf. 91.—CONTLUENCE OF TBB GUAYAQUIL RtVEBS. Scale I : ,000. W^. V/est or GreenwicK hoyo is a large stream, 2,000 feet wide from bank to bunk. Lower down it isjoined on its right side by the Rio Daule, which, after emerging from an exten-sive forest region, winds through alow-lying plain hotvreen pn/oiia/i:s (savannas)and tenibladcras (quagmires), expanding to a width of over half a mile as itenters the Guayaquil estuary. This marine inlet, which is here called the RioGuayas, rapidly broadens out to a width of over a mile at the town of Guayaquil,beyond which it ramifies through a small archipelago and round the large islandof Iuna at the entrance of the gulf. The Guayas catchment has an areaestimated by Wolf at 14,000 square miles. On the Amazonian slope the copious rains, intercepted by the dense vege- HYDROGRAPHY OF ECUADOR. 237 tation even along tolerably steep inclines, transforms its surface to a veritablesponge, like the turf bogs of the Irish mountains. Here the matted arborescentgrowths are in some
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