The earth and its inhabitants .. . t thinly peopled, with many districts quiteuninhabited. Such is the valley of the Atrato, one of the richest but, at the same 208 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. time, one of the iiuliealihiost rcfjions in the world. In 188j, AVbite estimatedits entire population at about 4(1,(100, of whom three-fourths were negroid half-breeds and one-fourth whites, whose chief resources were gold, gums, rubber,bark and other drugs colleeted in the forests. Qtiihih, the chief place in this basiu, lies on the right bank of flic Atrato, (lmiles above its mouth, and below t
The earth and its inhabitants .. . t thinly peopled, with many districts quiteuninhabited. Such is the valley of the Atrato, one of the richest but, at the same 208 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. time, one of the iiuliealihiost rcfjions in the world. In 188j, AVbite estimatedits entire population at about 4(1,(100, of whom three-fourths were negroid half-breeds and one-fourth whites, whose chief resources were gold, gums, rubber,bark and other drugs colleeted in the forests. Qtiihih, the chief place in this basiu, lies on the right bank of flic Atrato, (lmiles above its mouth, and below the Cuia confluence. The ncighbouriug hillscontain coal- and copper-mines, and at certain seasons prodigious shoals of fishascend the river, which has an average depfli of 10 feet, and is navigable forsteamers to this point. A bad road, crossing the Western Cordillera at a height of 6,800 feet, connectsQuibdo with Bolirar, in the Cauca valley. But the stream of migration to these Fig. 82.—Poet of 1 : 77-?0 West oF bree Uepthh. Oto5Fathoms. 6 to 25Fathoms. 26 Fathomsand upwards. , 12 Miles. uplands sets chiefly from Antioquia, whose enterprising citizens have alreadyfounded several settlements, such as Urrao, near the source of the Murri affluentof the Atrato ; CahnftrjonlaH and Froutino, about the headwaters of the Sucio, whichjoins the Atrato above its delta. NoVITA—BlKNAVENTUKA—El, CaSTIGO. In the upper basin of the San Juan, whence comes much of the platinum usedin the world, the chief centre of population is Novifn, which, like Quibdo, is builton piles. On the neighbouring Pacific coastlands the only port visited by skippersis Baudo, which lies on a tidal river of like name. TOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 209 Bueiinrentxra, on an islet at the eastern extremity of a long inlet soutli of theRio Sau Juan, attracts to its port about three-fourths of all the foreign trade ofthe Cauca basin. The deep and well-sheltered bight had been discovered in 153
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