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National Geographic : 1903 Jan
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SOME NOTES ON VENEZUELA bearing a Spaniard on his shoulders across a river. Others loaded them selves with the presents that had been bestowed on their guests, consisting of rich plumes, weapons of various kinds, and tropical birds and animals. In this way they returned in triumphant pro cession to the ships, the woods and shores resounding with their songs and shouts." Venezuela has a larger area than the combined areas of the great States of The republic has three zones-hot, temperate, and cool-according to the elevation of the land. The lowlands in the northwest are very torrid. Here great quantities of coffee and cacao are raised, which form the largest agricul tural exports of the country. The cacao is sent mainly to France, Ger many, and Spain, and the coffee, which averages a yearly crop of 55,000 tons, to the United States. South and east of the lowlands, extending eastward to Ca- A View of Caracas Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. In figures its area amounts to about 590,000 square miles. The population is 500,000 less than that of Massachusetts. In 1891 it was 2,323, 527. The capital, Caracas, has 75,000 inhabitants, Maracaibo 35,000, La Guaira 15,000, and Barcelona about 13,000. About one person out of every one hundred is pure white, while the others are descendants of black slaves, mulattoes, etc., and Indians. racas, are high mountains, where, the climate being temperate, most of the people live. Caracas, the capital, is 3,000 feet above the sea. Trade winds prevent the extremes of heat suffered in the corresponding latitude of north ern Africa. The mean temperature at Caracas is only 71°.2 Fahr. On the coast it averages from ten to twelve de grees higher. Vast llanos, or great plains, stretch south of the mountains, making splen did runs for cattle. South again of the '9 I
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