The earth and its inhabitants .. . of Puphio, Romrio,and San Antonio. Rosario, lying to the south-east, near the Rio Tachira,formerly held the first rank, and here was held, in 1^21, the general Congresswhere was framed the constitution of the tliree united republics of Venezuela,New Grenada, and Ecuador. Ocaha, standing at an altitude of 3,820 feet, near the sources of the RioCatatumbo, is an old place, founded in 1572 in the territory of the CaratesIndians. Formerly a state capital, and often proposed as the metropolis of theColombian Confederacy, it enjoys special advantages in the fertilit
The earth and its inhabitants .. . of Puphio, Romrio,and San Antonio. Rosario, lying to the south-east, near the Rio Tachira,formerly held the first rank, and here was held, in 1^21, the general Congresswhere was framed the constitution of the tliree united republics of Venezuela,New Grenada, and Ecuador. Ocaha, standing at an altitude of 3,820 feet, near the sources of the RioCatatumbo, is an old place, founded in 1572 in the territory of the CaratesIndians. Formerly a state capital, and often proposed as the metropolis of theColombian Confederacy, it enjoys special advantages in the fertility of the sur-rounding plains lying within the temperate zone, midway between the hotcoastlands and the cold regions of the plateau, with communications in onedirection towards Lake Maracaibo and Venezuela through the Rio Catatumbo,in another to the Magdalena basin, over a much-frequented pass 0,000 feet this basin the riverine ports of Ocaiia are Puerto Naeional and La Gloria,both on the rijrht bank of the oo o TOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 197 PopAYAX—Saxtaxder——Ma]siz-\les—Pacora. Near the source of the Cauca, or western Magdalena, stands the famous cityof Popai/an, the learned, the noble,^ the birthplace of more illustriouscitizens than any other place in the republic. Popayau, capital of the provinceof Cauca, presents from a distance an jfnposing View, its houses, domes, andtowers standing on the gently inclined slope of ^ cultivated tract, traversed by acopious stream which falls in a series of cascades down to the Cauca. South-wards is developed an amjihitheatre of hills, crowned by the superb cones ofSotara and Purace. Popayan lies within the temperate zone at an altitude of nearly 5,900 feet,with a mean temperature of from 62° to 64** Fahr. The old Indian settlementof the cacique Payau occuijied a part of the ground where the followers ofBelalcazar founded the Spanish town in 1536. Under the colonial rule it becamea thriving colony,
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