Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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5 up stream. Formerly thehongos and chamjmneH (barges) often took two or three months to make the ascent.* Between the Magdalena delta and the Gulf of Uraba the Sinu is the onlyriver reaching the coast. It rises in the Paramillo uplands, and ramifies, like theMagdalena, into a labyrinth of shifting branches in an old lacustrine district, nowhalf filled up by alluvial matter. Beyond this inland delta all the waters areagain collected in a single channel, which discharges about 11,500 cubic feetper second into the Morosquillo Gulf. The Sinu is accessible the greater part ofthe year to steamers for a distance of 110 miles, and to boats 60 miles farther,though the navigation is much obstructed by the shoals of the gulf, the dangerous * Statistics of the Rio Magdalena :— Area of the basia according- to Vergara y Velasco Length of courseLength of navigable watersLength of ramificationsMean discharge . 100,000 square mUes. 1,060 miles. 750 miles. 1,750 miles. 264,000 cubic feet per second.
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THE RIO ATRATO. 157 bar, and rapids higher up. Hence the stream is chiefly used for floating downlumber.* The Atrato. The Atrato (Darien, Choco), which forms the natural limit of South Americatowards its north-west extremity, is almost less a river than a moving morass. Fig. 60.—Mouths of the Ateato. Scale 1 : 825,000.

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