the beach level. The Government representative here was Francisco 
Igu&ran, whose true home is in Rancho Grande. He control# trade and * 
political natters in this area. We lived hare in a shed-like building 
belonging to the Government. There is a little native hotel, the 
Caehaeo, where it would be most unfortunate to have to stop* Rater 
here is bad, being brought from a distance by the Indians for 10 centavos 
per 5 gallon can and local food supplies are scanty* Trade and contact 
for the entire southern part of the Guajira from Cojoro to Puerto Lopez 
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is mainly with Venezuela. Venezuelan bolivars were as common here as 
Colombian pesos. 
From here we continued over a rough and rocky trail leading be¬ 
tween the Serranlas of Macuire and Jarara through the region known as 
a 
Taguaira across to the edge of the north plain of the peninsula. Sere 
we turned east to go into Puerto Estrella. This is a small settlement 
of 20 or 25 houses located on an ©pen shadeless flat with an elevation 
35 feet above the sea* A mall, shallow, ©pm harbor is used by 
schooners and fishing vessels coming from Aruba and other points. Trade 
here seemed to be mainly in the hands of Don Samuel Weeber who had a 
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very fair house for this country. Sere there is located alas 5cm Juan 
Quiz who was representative of the Government at this point who with 
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Weeber seemed to control. This seemed to be at the time a point at 
which schooners unloaded their cargos which were then transported by 
truck to Riohacha. 1 have been informed recently (September, 1941) 
that this port also has been closed by the Colombian authorities so that 
trade for the Guajira is now supposed to enter wholly through Riohacha. 
