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Orope (25 meters), 8°27’ N., 72°19’ W., Zulia, Venezuela. A railroad station on 
the Rio Orope, 8 kilometers east of where the Rfo Zulia crosses the Colombia- 
Venezuelan boundary. It is in the humid tropical forest at the northern 
base of the Sierra de Mérida in the Lake Maracaibo basin (Dearborn). 
Palomino (or “‘Palomina’’), 11°7’ N., 73°34’ W., Magdalena, Colombia. An 
Indian village on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. 
It is on the right bank of the Rio Palomino, northwest of Pueblo Viejo and 
about 15 kilometers up from the mouth of the river. Brown gave the alti- 
tude as 5,000 feet. This may be correct, but, according to Carriker, Brown 
never did collect there in person. The specimens were brought to him by 
an Indian trader. 
Péramo de Escorial, Mérida, Venezuela. In the Sierra de Mérida; near the town 
of Mérida. Péramo refers, usually, to the grasslands of the high mountains 
above timber line. But the temperate forests above tropical or subtropical 
valleys are often called péramos by the valley inhabitants. The altitude of 
3,000 meters given by Bricefio for the squirrels is certainly above timber line 
in this area. 
Péramo de Tamd, 7°24’ N., 72°26’ W., Colombia-Venezuela. A mountain mass 
in the Cordillera Oriental at the head of the Tachira River between Colombia 
and Venezuela. It supports a temperate-zone forest but the summit of the 
principal peak (3,329 meters) is without timber. Squirrels taken at 8,000 
feet (Osgood and Jewett). 
Pueblo Bello* (1,067 meters), 10°24’ N., 73°39’ W., Magdalena, Colombia. A 
village on a savanna mesa between the upper Rfo Ariguanf and its tributary, 
the Ariguanicito, on the southern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. 
The whole region with the inner facing slopes of the surrounding hills is 
grassland except for isolated patches of forest in the ravines and precipitous 
slopes not suitable for agriculture or grazing. Obviously the region has been 
stripped almost bare of forest by repeated cutting and burning since pre- 
Columbian times. Savannas dominate the region from Pueblo Bello to San 
Sebastidn and higher. The outer slopes of the hills to the west, south, and 
_ southeast are heavily forested. Humid subtropical. 
This is the Pueblo Viejo (Sur) of maps and sometimes has been confused with 
the Pueblo Viejo where Brown collected. 
Pueblo Viejo (853 meters), 10°59’ N., 73°26’ W., Colombia. A relatively new 
hamlet replacing the extinct village of San Antonio on the northern slopes 
of the Sierra Nevada. The village is on the Rio San Antonio above its 
junction with the Rio Macotama, whence it continues to the sea as the Rfo 
San Miguel. It lies among grass-covered hills between the tropical and sub- 
tropical zones. Several trails lead out of Pueblo Viejo, one of them west to 
the Indian village of Palomino. Brown gave the altitude of Pueblo Viejo 
as 8,000 feet. Due to this exaggeration in altitude, it was believed by Allen 
that Brown collected in Pueblo Viejo (Sur) on the southern slope of the 
mountains (see Pueblo Bello) which, though higher in altitude, is still much 
lower than 8,000 feet. 
Puerto Estrellat (86 meters), 8°58’ N., 73°56’ W., Magdalena, Colombia. A 
small port on the right bank of the Magdalena, a few kilometers above El 
Banco, in the deltalike ciénaga forming the mouth of the Cesar (Curran). 
Puerto Santander (60 meters), 7°45’ N., 73°47’ W., Santander, Colombia. Small 
port on the right bank of the Rfo Magdalena, on the pipe line between 
Barranca Bermejo and Gamarra (Hermano Nicéforo Marfa). 
