The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

116 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA.
founded the station of Lahrea, whicli perpetuates his name, and wticli haa become
the capital of the district. It stands at the converging point of the routes followed
by the seekers of rubber not only in the Upper Purus and Aquiry basins, but also
in the remote regions watered by the Beni and the Madeira. At present steam
Fig. 39.
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Tktfe and Japuea Conthience.
Scale 1 : 1,000,000.
West of Greenwich 64°-»5 64° 30-
to 100
Fathoms.
Depths.
100 Fathoms
aad upwards.
.^_ 26 Milea.
navigation on the Purus stops at the little port of Hyutanaham, some hundred
miles below Labrea.
From the economic standpoint the Madeira may be regarded as forming part
of the same domain as the Purus, but only below the cataracts. Higher up, the
Guapore region, formerly an independent lacustrine basin, belongs to the Matto