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Exploration between the Rio Branco and the Serra Parima

1933; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/209623

1931-0846

Desmond Holdridge,

Geography and Education Methods

rT HE section of northern Brazil enclosed by the Negro, Branco, and Uraricoera rivers and the Serra Parima has long been indicated on maps of Brazil as terra incognita and it was in the hope of finding there aboriginal cultures unchanged by contact with white men that the writer's expedition was undertaken. During the seven months from May to November, I932, explorations were conducted on three of the five large tributaries of the Amazon system that have their sources in the Serra Parima-the Catrimany, Demini, and Aracia.1 Throughout the several journeys low mountains at strategic points were ascended and bearings taken from them on near-by and distant peaks and sketches made. The resulting network of bearings constitutes a rough triangulation of the whole region and with the photographs and sketches has made possible the construction of a map giving an approximate representation of the topography. A part of the Brazil-Venezuela boundary, following the crest of the Serra Parima, lies within this area, and as a consequence its delineation will be quite different from any shown heretofore.