Ecuador : its ancient and modern history, topography and natural resources, industries and social development . e Vinces, and the Caracas, flow fromthe north. All these streams are navigable on theirlower courses, regular steamboat traffic being main-tained on the Guayas and Bodegas with the riverport of that name eighty miles above Guayaquil andfor forty miles on the Daule. The Bodegas River, otherwise known as the Baba-hoyo, is tortuous, curving constantly from north toeast. Navigating from Guayaquil for six miles tothe north, the island of Mocoli is reached, and thence,seven or eight miles
Ecuador : its ancient and modern history, topography and natural resources, industries and social development . e Vinces, and the Caracas, flow fromthe north. All these streams are navigable on theirlower courses, regular steamboat traffic being main-tained on the Guayas and Bodegas with the riverport of that name eighty miles above Guayaquil andfor forty miles on the Daule. The Bodegas River, otherwise known as the Baba-hoyo, is tortuous, curving constantly from north toeast. Navigating from Guayaquil for six miles tothe north, the island of Mocoli is reached, and thence,seven or eight miles to the east, the mouth of theYaguachi or Chimbo. This river is crossed by theGuayaquil-Quito railway by an iron bridge. The Chimbo River forms a wide curve, flowingfrom the Cordillera southwards, westwards, andfinally north-west, falling into the Guayas. It is 1 Here, as throughout Ecuador and the greater part of SpanishAmerica, is to be noted the system, exceedingly troublesome to thegeographer, which the Spaniards introduced of giving differentnames to the same river in different parts of its course. r -. THE GUAYAS AND ESMERALDAS 125 joined in its westward portion by the Chimbo valley ends at the bridge of the samename, where the river leaves the montahas and enterson the plains. Both the Chimbo and Chanchan haverepeatedly changed their courses in the district, asevident by the old channels and esteros. The landis not here very favourable for agriculture, althoughthere are extensive bancos of good soil. Abouteighteen miles west of the bridge the Chimbo andChanchan unite, and approach near to the BolicheRiver, which flows in a similar direction, and inwinter the waters of the one escape to the the Chobo hacienda the river takes the nameof the Yaguachi, and at this point, nine miles from:its mouth, it is subject to the tide, and is navigable,although in summer steamboats ascend only as faras the pueblo of Yaguachi, situated upon the rightbank. For a few
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