. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 314 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. Villa Azam, so named from the naturalist who resided here in 1788 to study the surrounding flora and fauna. Encarnaciox. Farther down camping-grounds become more numerous, and here the impor- tant village of Itapua, better known by the name of Encarnacion, given to it by the Jesuits, marks the point where the Parana begins to flow due east and west. For 200 years Encarnacion has commanded the passage of the riv^er between Para- guay and the Argentine province of Corrientes. The Jesuits had made it the headquarters of the
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 314 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. Villa Azam, so named from the naturalist who resided here in 1788 to study the surrounding flora and fauna. Encarnaciox. Farther down camping-grounds become more numerous, and here the impor- tant village of Itapua, better known by the name of Encarnacion, given to it by the Jesuits, marks the point where the Parana begins to flow due east and west. For 200 years Encarnacion has commanded the passage of the riv^er between Para- guay and the Argentine province of Corrientes. The Jesuits had made it the headquarters of their southern missions, and later, under the dictatorship of Fig. 132.—Encaenacion. Scale 1: 700, SS'-^o 12 Miles. Francia, it was made an outlet for the foreign trade of Paraguay. Hither the Guarani brought their convoys of mules, thoix tobacco and maté, in exchange for the coffee, sugar, and European goods imported by the Brazilian traders from Rio Grande. All transactions were carried on by the barter system, the dictator having forbidden the exportation of gold and silver specie. At present much of the trafhc of Encarnacion has been diverted elsewhere by the steamers plying on the Paraguay and Parana rivers. But this place is intended to be the terminus of the proposed railways that are to traverse part of the mate- growing country. On the opposite or Corrientes side stands the Argentine town of Posadas, which is also to be a railway terminus for a line running through Monte Caseros to the Lower Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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