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government conferred on Juan de Salinas. And thus they continued to be called for 

 many years, till the Indians of both territories in a fudden revolt deftroyed the prin- 

 cipal towns. Thofe which were fpared, after paffing near an age in wretchednefs and 

 barbarifm, happily recovered thenifelves, became united to the city of Jaen, as part 

 of a government, with the title of Jaen de Bracamoros ; and the title of governor of 

 Yaguarfongo, was as before related, kept up by being annexed to the corregidor 

 of Loja. 



The town of Jaen, with the addition of Pacamoros, or Bracamoros, from the 

 reunion of the towns of that country to it, was founded in the year 1 549, by Diego 

 Palomino. It ftands in the jurifdiftion of Chaca-Inga, belonging to the province of 

 Chuquimayo, and is the refidence of the governor. It is fituated on the north fhore 

 of the river Chinchipe, at its conflux into theMaranon^ It lies in about 5,^ 25' fouth 

 latitude, and its longitude may be conjectured to be very little diftant from the meridian 

 of Quito, if not under it. The account given of the mean condition of the cities of 

 Macas and Quixos alfo fuits Jaen. We muft however obferve, that it is much more 

 populous, its inhabitants being, of all ages and fexes, computed at three or four thou- 

 fand ; though thefe, for the mofl part, are Meftizos, with fome' Indians, but very few 

 Spaniards. 



Juan de Salinas likewife found in his government of Yaguarfongo three other cities^ 

 ftill fubfifling, but fmall, mean, and defencelefs, like Jaen. Their names are Vallado- 

 lid, Loyola, and Saniago de las Montagnas : the lafl borders on the government of 

 Minas, and is only feparated from its capital, the city of Borja, by the Pongo de 

 Manceriche. In this country of Jaen de Bracamoros are feveral fmall villages : 



I. San Jofeph. VI. Chinchipe* 



II. Chito. VII. Chyrmos. 



III. Sander. VIII. Poinaca. 



IV. Charape. IX. Tomependa* 

 V. Pucara. X. Chucunga. 



The inhabitants of which are moflly Indians, with fome Meftizos, but no great 

 number of either. 



Though Jaen ftands on the bank of the river Chinchipe, and fo near the Maranon, 

 yet the latrer is not navigable up to it : fo that thofe who are to embark on it, go by 

 land from Jaen to Chuchunga, a fmall place on another river of that name, and in 

 25 29' latitude, whence they fall down into the Maranon. This town, which may 

 be accounted the port for Jaen, lies four days journey from the city, which is the me- 

 thod of calculating the diftanees here ; the difficulties of the road increafing them far 

 beyond what they are in reality, that not feldom that which on good ground might be 

 travelled in an hour or two, takes up a half and fometimes a whole day. 



The climate of Jaen, and the fame may be faid of the whole jurifdidion of this 

 government, is like that of Quixos, except that the rains are neither fo lafting nor vio- 

 lent ; and, like that of Macas, it enjoys fome interval of fummer ; when the heats, 

 tempefts, and all the inconveniences of winter, abate. The foil is fruitful in all the 

 grains and produds agreeable to its temperature. The country is full of wild trees, 

 particularly the cacao, the fruit of which, befides the exuberance of it on all the trees,, 

 is equal to that cultivated in plantations ; but is of little ufe here for want of con- 

 fumption : and the carriage of it to diftant parts would be attended with fuch charges 



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