The earth and its inhabitants .. . ans, former rulers of the land. Caraquesstands on the south side of the estuary, but its harbour is unfortunately obstructedby a bar impassable by large vessels. The Rio Grande (Canar), which enters tlie Gulf of Guayaquil opposite theisland of Puna, and whose port has taken the name of Naravjal from the neigh-bouring orange -groves, recalls the powerful Cafiar (Cafiares) nation, whichoffered such a stout resistance to the Incas. The present town of Canar lies higherup the river near the pre-Columbian ruins of Ilatun-Camr and Tomehamba—the 266 SOUTH AMERICA—TH
The earth and its inhabitants .. . ans, former rulers of the land. Caraquesstands on the south side of the estuary, but its harbour is unfortunately obstructedby a bar impassable by large vessels. The Rio Grande (Canar), which enters tlie Gulf of Guayaquil opposite theisland of Puna, and whose port has taken the name of Naravjal from the neigh-bouring orange -groves, recalls the powerful Cafiar (Cafiares) nation, whichoffered such a stout resistance to the Incas. The present town of Canar lies higherup the river near the pre-Columbian ruins of Ilatun-Camr and Tomehamba—the 266 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. former said to have been Iluaynu-Capacs palace a few years before the arrival ofthe Spaniards; the latter an old stronghold captured iu 1030 by Atahuallpa afterthe massacre of 60,000 of its Cafiar defenders. South-west of Cafiar and on the same Pacific slope stands the flourishing townof Muchula, whose harbour, Pttcrto Huuila or Bvlirur, lies on the Jumbeli channel Fig. 100.—Cpenca Basih. Scale I : /feet :|- ?> IS Miles. under the shelter of the islets of like name. Here are shipped the ores from theZantma valley in the upper Rio Tumbez basin, the only important mining districtin Ecuador. Its decomposed porphyry rocks, transformed to a reddish clay, containveins of gold formerly -worked b}- the Indians, and now treated bj an Englishcompany by a new process. Between 1888 and 1891 the Zaruma gold-minesyielded an average annual output of about £11,000. Copper ores occur in the TOPOGEAPHY OF ECUADOR. 257 neighbouring cliffs. A few other southern towns—Celica, Cafacocha, Cariumanga—are also situated on the Pacific slope ; the headstreams of their valleys uniteto form the Rio Achira (Chira), which reaches the coast at Paita Bay, between theTumbez and Sechura deserts. But the better-peopled districts of this part of Ecuador lie on the Amazonianslope. The chief towns and most fertile plains are situated in the upper basin ofthe Paute (
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