The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA.
up the surrounding valley's. Here are the suburbs of Icarahy, Jurujuha, and /S.
Lourengo, the last-named originally a native settlement occupied by those Indians
who had sided with the Portuguese in their wars with the French.
Despite the vast space which it covers, Rio has a population which, according
to the roun-h returns for 1893, cannot be estimated at more than about half a
million. The official census of the municipality for 1890 gave 48,576 houses and
Fig. 79.—Eio DE Jakeieo.
Scale 1 : 90,000.
4?°15- West of G
Oto 16
Feet.
16 to 32
Feet.
iJepthb.
32 to 64
Feet.
. 2,200 Yards.
64 Feet
and upwards.
71,607 families, which, allowing seven persons to the family, would make almost
exactly 500,000. But the Fluminenses, or " River Folk," as the inhabitants of
Rio are familiarly called, often exaggerate the population of their city, and are
reluctant to admit that in this respect Buenos Ayres takes the foremost place
amongst the cities of South America. They speak in an off-hand way of " a
million " as about the population of the Brazilian capital, " including the
suburbs."