51 
CATARACT 
OF THE 
RIO FINAGRE, 
NEAR THE VOLCANO OF FURACE. 
PLATE XXX. 
The city of Popayan, capital of a province of 
New Grenada, is situate in the beautiful valley 
of Rio Cauca, at the foot of the great volcanoes 
of Purac6 and Sotara. . Its height above the 
level of the South Sea being only eighteen hun- 
dred metres, it enjoys, under a latitude of 2° 
26' 17", a delicious climate, much less sultry 
than that of Carthago and Ibagu^ and infinitely 
more temperate than that of Quito and Santa-Fe 
, de Bogota. On ascending from Popayan toward 
the top ^of the volcano of Purace, one of the 
great elevations of the Andes, we find, at two 
thousand six hundred and fifty metres height, a 
small plain (Llano del Corazon ), inhabited by 
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