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of the Rio Branco, and that of the Carony, 

 crosses the summit of the chain of Pacaraina. 

 On the northern slope of this chain rises the 

 Anocapra (Anuca-para ? Nocaprai), a tributary 

 stream of thq Paraguamusi or Paravamusi ; and 

 on the southern slope, the Araicuque, which, 

 with the Uraricapara, forms the famous Valley 

 of Inundations*, above the destroyed mis- 

 sion of Santa Rosa (lat. 3° 46'/ long. 65° 10'). 

 The principal Cordillera, which appears of little 

 breadth, stretches on a length of 80 leagues, 

 from the portage of Anocapra (long. 65° 35') to 

 the left bank of the Rupunuri (long. 61° 50'), 

 following the parallels of 4° 4' and 4° 12^ 



* Vol. v> p. 791. The Rio Uraricapara throws itself into 

 the Uraricuera, called Curaricara in the manuscript of Rodri- 

 guez, and which may be considered as the western branch of 

 the Rio Branco, while the eastern branch is the Tacutu, 

 which receives the Mahu. The two branches join near the 

 fort of San Joaquim of the Rio Branco. The Spaniards of 

 Carony began to pass the chain of Pacaraina, . and fix them- 

 selves on the Portugueze territory, in the years 1770 and 

 1773. They established successively the missions of Santa 

 Rosa, San Juan Baptista de Cayacaya (Cadacada) and San 

 Antonio (Caulin, p. 60) j but those villages, or rather assem- 

 blages of huts, were destroyed by the Portugueze. Wars 

 are unhappily but too frequent in this part of America, be- 

 tween the neighbouring missions of two rival nations. The 

 map of Pontes marks at the junction of the Paraguamusi 

 and the Rio Paragua (a tributary of the Carony), the village 

 of San Vicente, lat. 4° 25' ; the point where the Spanish 

 military post of Guirior is placed. 



