SPANISH DOMINIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA. 



TERRA FIRMA, OR CASTILE DEL ORG. 



SITUATION AND EXTENT. - 



Mle*- Degrees. Sq. Milej. 



Length 1400 1 . 5 60° and 82 West longitude. \ 



Breadth 700$ be ^eei» ^ theequat0I>jand 12 North latitude. 5 700 ' 000 



Boundaries. ...Bounded by the North Sea (part of the Atlantic 

 Ocean) on the north ; by the same sea and Surinam on the east ; by 

 the country of the Amazons and Peru on the south ; and by the Paci- 

 fic Ocean and New Spain on the west. 



Divisions. Subdivisions. Chief Towns. 



Pi. Terra Firma Pro-"") Porto Bello 



per, or Darien PANAMA,W.long.80° 



21', N. lat. 8° 47' 



The northern division I J £ a " h / ge u na S^?/ 5 ?* 



contains the proving * *; Martha ^St. Martha 



ces Q £ j 4. Rio de la Hacha \ Rio de laHacha 



i5. Venezuela 

 6. Comana 

 7. New Andalusia, or 

 ^ Paria 

 The southern division C 1. New Granada 

 contains the provin--< 

 ces of (_2. Popayan J Popayan 



Venezuela 

 Comana 

 St. Thomas 



Santa Fe" de Bagota 



Isthmus of Darien.. ..The Isthmus of Darien, or Terra Firma 

 Proper, joins North and South America. A line drawn from Porto 

 Bello, in the North, to Panama in the South Sea, or rather a little 

 west of these two towns, is the proper limit between North and South 

 America; and here the isthmus or neck of land is only sixty miles 

 over. 



Bays. ...The principal bays in Terra Firma are, the Bay of Panama 

 and the Bay of St. Michael, in the South Sea ; the Bay of Porto 

 Bello, the Gulf of Darien, Sino Bay, Carthagena Bay and harbour, 

 the Gulf of Venezuela. 



Rivers. ...The chief rivers are the Rio Grande, the Darien, the 

 Chagre, and the Oronoque, or Oronoko, which latter is remarkable 



