142 /AVOYAGETO Book Vlk 



CHAP. Xiir. 



Of the Audience of Charcas. 



'"T^HE province of Charcas, in the extenc of its 

 jnrifdiclion, is equal to that of Lima ; but with 

 this difacivantage. that many of its^parts are not fo 

 well inhabited, ibme being full of the vaft defarts 

 and impenetrable foreils while others are full of 

 vaft plains, intercepted by the flupendous heights of 

 the Cordilleras, fo that it is inhabited in thofe parts 

 only which are free from thefe inconveniences. The 

 name of Charcas formerly included many populous 

 provinces of Indians, whom the Ynca Capac Yupan- 

 qui fubjedted to his empire ; but he carried his arms 

 no farther than the provinces of Tutyras and Cha- 

 qui, where he terminated his conquefbs towards Cal- 

 lafuyo. On the death of this monarch, his fon, 

 Ynca Roca, the fixth in the fuccefTion of thofe em- 

 perors, puflied his conquefts farther in the fame 

 part, till he became fovereign of all the interme- 

 diate nations to the province of Chaquifaca, where 

 was afterwards founded the city of Plata, at prefent 

 the capital of the whole province of Charcas. Its 

 jurifdidion begins on the north fide, at Vilcanota, 

 belonging to the province of Lampa in the diocefs 

 of Culco, and reaches fouthward to Buenos Ay res. 

 Eaflward it extends to Brafil, being terminated by 

 the meridian of demarcation ; and v^^eftward part of 

 it reaches to the fouth-fea, particularly at Atacam.a, 

 the mofl northern part of it on this fide. The re- 

 mainder of Charcas borders on the kingdom of Chili. 

 Thefe vaft trads of land give one archbifhop and five 

 bilhops his fuffragans, namely. 



The archbifhop of Plata. 

 Bifhopricks. 



I. La Pas. 11. Santa Cruz de la Sierra. 



III. Tu- 



