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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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TOPOGRAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 191 enjoys the benefit of some extremely rich saline hot springs (122° Fahr.) in theCasanare basin, which are utilised by the neighbouring Tunebo Indians for variousmaladies. The Cocui district abounds in coal, iron, copper, argentiferous lead, m be
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cinnabar and salt, resources hitherto untouched, owing to the absence of prac-ticable roads. West of the C( ^ui the Sogamoso bends round to pierce the parallel ridges ofthe Cordilleras through a series of deep gorges in a romantic region where all thesettlements are situated at some distance from the river, on the elevated terraces 192 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANITES REGIONS. or in the upland valleys. Such are Onzaga and Mogotcs, the latter about 3miles from the Hoyo de los Pâjaros ( Birds Hole ), a chasm GOO feet deep andonly 150 in circumference, in which hover flocks of the same species of devil-bird that frequents the Caripe caves. San Andres, noted for its schools, stands at an elevation of over 6,500 feet, ina mountain valley near Lake Ortices, about midway between the industrious townof Malaga in the south-east and the flourishing city of Bucaramanga in the Lebrijavalley. South of this place flows the Suarez (Saravita), which joins the Sogamosoin one of the most rugged regions of C

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