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Santa Eleiia'Pt 



oMachala 

 uerto Bolivar 



Scale of Allies 

 20 40 60 



JCuiery Walker sc. 



Rough Plan of the Gulf of Guayaquil. 



(The main stream of the Humboldt current, as indicated by the 

 arrows, turns off to the north-west at Cape Blanco ; whilst a 

 small branch crosses the mouth of the Gulf ot Guayaquil and flows 

 along the Ecuador coast north of Santa Elena Point.) 



