U% A VOYAGE TO Boor VIL 



CHAP. XIII. 



Of the Audience of Chaveas. 



THE province of Charcas, in the extent of its 

 jnrisidiction, is equal to that of Lima; but with 

 this disadvantage, that many of its parts are not so 

 Tsell inhabited, some being; full of vast deserts 

 and impenetrable forests; while others are full of 

 vast plains, intercepted by the stupendous heights of 

 the Cordilleras, so that it is inhabited in those parts 

 only which are free from these inconveniences. The 

 name of Charcas formerly included many populous 

 provinces of Indians, whom the Ynca Capac Yupan- 

 qui subjected to his empire ; bnt he carried iiis arms 

 no fartiie than the provinces of Tutyras and Cha- 

 qui, where he terminated his conquests towards Cal- 

 lasuyo. On the death of this monarch, his son, 

 Ynca Roca, the sixth in the succession of those em- 

 perors, pushed his conqu'^sts farther in the same 

 part, till he became sovereign of all the intennc- 

 diate nations to the province of Chaquisaca, where 

 was afterwards founded the city of Plata, at present 

 the capital of the whole province of Charcas. Its 

 jurisdiction begins on the north side, at Vilcanota, 

 belonging to the province of Lampa in the diocess 

 of- Cusco, and reaches southward to Buenos Ayres. 

 Eastward it extends to Brasil, being* terminated by 

 tlic meridian of demarcation ; and westward part of 

 it reaches to the south-sea, paticularly at Atacama, 

 the most northern part of it on this side. The re- 

 mainder of Chaveas borders on the kingdom of Chili. 

 These vast tracts of the land give one archbishop, and 

 five bishops his suífragans, namely. 



The archbishop of Plata. 



Bishopricks. 



I. La Pas. II. Santa Cruz de la i^ierra. 



5 Hi. Tu- 



