Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XI. Venezuela

Collection:: Economics Books

130 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 4000 miles of this distance. About 600 miles up this river is situated the town of Ciudad Bolivar, formerly known as Angostura, where the bitters of that name were first made. Regular lines of ocean-going vessels and steamboats run to this inland port, the river being navigable for smaller vessels to San Fernando de Apuri, where the Apuri River joins it over a thousand miles from its mouth. It drains a territory of over 370,000 square miles. Other navigable rivers are the Meta, the Portuguesa, the Yaracuy, and the Escal ante. Along the coast of Venezuela there are about 30 harbors and 32 ports. For its size there are few railways in Vene zuela, the total mileage being about 550, and the chances are that it will be many years be fore there will be any marked activity in this field, due to the topography of the country, its lack of population and its tendency to revolu tions. Some idea of the conditions confront ing the engineer may be had when I state that the German railway from Caracas to Valencia, a distance of 111 miles, is cut through the

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