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of the Talamancan area ran slightly south of west from the mouth 
of the Rio Matina, nearly or quite to the middle of the northern boun- 
dary of Cartago district, where it turned south. 
Notwithstanding the statement by Peralta given above, that the 
Guetare territory (including that of the Quepo) extended southeast 
to the Rio Grande Terraba, it is shown by Sapper’s map that the 
Terraba and the Brunca (or Boruca) tribes are located, even at the 
present day, in the valley of this river, chiefly on the west side. The 
name of the river (Terraba) is also significant. It has been decided 
best, therefore, to include this river, or at least all except its head- 
waters, in the Talamancan territory. The Pacific ocean forms the 
southern boundary. It is apparent from Sapper’s map that the 
eastern limit on the Pacific side can be but slightly east, if east at all, 
of Punta Boruca, as immediately to the east of it are encountered 
the Doraskean element. In the extract given Peralta evidently 
includes the Boruca peninsula in Doraskean territory. The eastern 
boundary of the Talamancan territory on the Pacific slope falls 
between the Boruca peninsula and the Rio Chiriqui Viejo. 
The eastern boundary of the Talamancan territory, on the Atlantic 
slope, can not be exactly determined. That this territory did not 
include the Rio Rovalo, which falls into the western side of Chiriqui 
lagoon, seems certain; and that the Doraskean territory included 
some of the upper tributaries of the Telorio also seems certain. 
Pinart (2:1) says the Doraskean tribes were situated back of the 
Chiriqui lagoon, and from the name is inclined to believe their ter- 
ritory formerly extended north to the Changuinaula river, Changuina 
being a name sometimes applied to them. This condition of things, if 
correctly stated, must have prevailed, however, before the incoming 
of the Mexican colony. The line represented on the accompanying 
map does not extend quite so far north. 
Tariaca(?).—Starting with that part of the territory belonging to 
the Atlantic slope and going south, the first tribe of which there is any 
notice is the Tariaca. This tribe is considered by Pittier (41) identical 
with the Chirripo of Thiel. The region occupied seems to have 
extended along the coast from the Rio Matina well down toward the 
Rio Teliri. Unless they were identical with the Chirripo the tribe is 
extinct and nothing is known of their language; but accepting Pit- 
tier’s suggestion of identity with the Chirripo, as the writer is 
inclined to do, there is evidence in. Thiel’s vocabulary (1) that they 
belonged to the Talamancan group. Although Sapper (1: 32) appears 
to draw his information regarding the Tariaca from Pittier, he evi- 
dently distinguishes them from the Chirripo, as he says: 
North of the district of the Chirripo and Bribri Indians along the Atlantic coast are to 
be found the former dwelling places of the Tariaca (taken from Pittier) of which tribe 
nothing has been preserved to the present time. 
