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some islets on the coast of the Gulf of Venezuela, along a line running through 

 the Montes de Oca forest to the Sierra de Perijaa east of the Rio Cesar valley. 

 Colombia also keeps the disputed territory of San Faustino in the Rio Zulia valley, 

 as well as the left bank of the Orinoco, between the Meta and Guaviare conflu- 

 ences ; the Atabapo frontier to a distance of 22 miles above Yavita, then a straight 

 line running towards the Guainia (Rio Negro) to 22 miles west of Pimichin, and 

 lastly the Guainia itself to Cucuhy on the Brazilian frontier. 



In the territory thus awarded to Colombia, Venezuela preserves nothing but 

 the right of wav turning the Atures rapids within the Colombian frontier. She 

 loses altogether nearly a third of the space claimed, though the region in dispute 



Fig. 27- — Feontiees op Venezuela.. 

 Scale 1 : 18,000,000. 



310 Miles. 



is but sparsely inhabited and of no present economic value. Colombia had, on the 

 other hand, demanded much more than she received, claiming the Cassiquiare and 

 the Baria and Canaburi affluents of the Rio Negro for her eastern frontier. 



Towards Brazil the Venezuelan frontier, as determined by the treaty of 1859, 

 runs from above the village of Cocui, at first south-east until it coincides with the 

 waterparting between the two secondary basins of the Baria and Canaburi, and 

 beyond it with the divides of the Rio Negro, of its great affluent the Rio Branco, 

 and of the upper Orinoco. Beyond Mount Machiari, northern limit of the Sierra 

 Parima, which forms part of the dividing line, the frontier turns abruptly south 

 and then nearly due east along the crest of the Sierra Pacaraima between the 



