RIVERS OF MEXICO. 



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Rio Conil. 

 Rio Bolino. 

 Rio Nuevo. 



Rio de la Ascension. 

 Rio San Jose. 

 Rio Hondo. 



Rio Bacalar. 



Many of these streams are, in fact, not entitled to the name of 

 rivers, though a few of them are important, whilst all are valuable 

 to some extent for agriculture, transportation, irrigation, or occa- 

 sional water power. 



III. Rivers on the West and South Coast of Mexico. 



1st. Rio de Chimalapa, sometimes called also, Rio de Chi- 

 capa, rises in the forests and mountains of Tarifa in about 16° 43' 

 north, 96° 33' west from Paris, and debouches in the Pacific, after 

 passing the village of Tehuantepec. The rivers Ob stula, Nilte- 

 pec or Estepec, — de los Perros or Juchuitan, Arenas, La- 

 gartero, Otates, are small coast streams falling into the lagunes 

 that border the ocean. 



2d. The Rio de Tehuantepec is formed by the union of two 

 streams, one of which rises about fifty leagues west north-west of 

 Tehuantepec, near the village of San Dionisio, whilst the other 

 springs from the mountains of Lyapi and Quiegolani, in the lands of 

 the Chontales. The two unite seven leagues north-west of Tehu- 

 antepec ; and, passing by the village of that name, this river finally 

 pours into the Pacific, near the small port of Las Ventosas. 



3d. The Rio Verde rises in the Upper Misteca, eight leagues 

 north of Oajaca, and falls west of the Cerro de la Plata and of the 

 Lagunas of Chacahua, into the Pacific. On the coast of Oajaca 

 there are many smaller streams and rivulets, such as the Chaca- 

 lapa, the Manialtepec, the Colotepec, the Santa Helena, 

 the Caputita, the Comun, the Ayutla, the Chicometepec and 

 the Tecoyama, — the last of which is the boundary between the 

 states of Oajaca and Puebla. 



4th. The Rio'de Tlascala, or Rio de Papagallo, has its 

 source in the vicinity of the town of Tlascala, in the mountain At- 

 lancatepetl ; passes through the state of Puebla, receives the Rio 

 Mezcala, out of the state of Mexico, and enters the Pacific south 

 of the village of Ayulta. 



5th. The Rio de Zacatula, or Rio Balsas, originates in the 

 valley of Istla, in the state of Mexico, and after winding west south- 

 westerly, it receives the Rios Zitacuaro, de Churumuco, and del 

 Marquez out of the state of Michoacan, and passes into the 

 Pacific. 



6th. Rio de Aztala rises two leagues south-west of the village 



