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DISTEIBUTION INTO PBOVINCES. tliree
thousand are classed, by Codazzi, as
247
on which
hills
sheep might graze, seven hundred and ninety seven as sabanas
fit
and the
for cattle,
rest as steep
mountain or
lake.
This zone, which has perhaps about sixty thousand inhabitants, could support sixteen millions.
In Codazzi's map Venezuela vinces, which, beginning
may
Cumana
3.
Caracas
;
2. 6.
;
Carabobo
quisuneto; 10. Coro caibo.
new
;
;
;
divided into thirteen pro-
from the south-east, and reckoning
in a westerly dii-ection,
Guayana
is
7.
be enumerated as follows
Barcelona
Apm-e
11. Trujillo
In the more modern
map
;
;
;
8.
12.
4.
:
Margarita
Barmas Merida
;
9.
;
13.
— ;
1.
5.
Bar-
Mara-
of 1865, wall be found the
distribution into twenty-one provinces, which, reckoning
in the
same order from south-east
to west are as follows Inhabitants.
1.
Guayana with
2.
Matui-in
3.
Cumana
75,000*
4.
Xueva Esparta
24,000
5.
Barcelona
90,000
6.
Guarico
18,000
7.
Bolivar
120,000
8.
Araguas
140,000
9.
Distrito Federal
80,000
25,000
11.
Apure Zamora
12.
Portuguesa
85,000*
13.
Cojedes
14.
10.
60,000 .
45,000*
80,000 60,000
15.
Carabobo Yaracui
16.
Nueva Cegovia
23,000
17.
Coro
80,000
18.
Los Andes
80,000
19.
Tachira
65,000
20.
Merida
90,000
21.
Zulia
75,000
170,000* 80,000
Total *
These provinces have united
1,565,000
for representative purposes.
: