Cartagena and the banks of the Sinu

Graham Cunninghame

Published by William Heinemann, hardcover
little foxed.


CHAPTER I
THE great Colombian province, known as El Departamento de Bolivar, though it has an extent of 41,000 square miles, is but little known to the outside world. It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the department of Atlantico, on the south by the department of Antioquia, on the east by the departments of Santander and Magdalena, and on the west by the Caribbean Sea. The chief towns are Cartagena (the capital), Arjona, Calamar, Santiago de Tokt, El Carmen, Corozál, China, Magangué, Monteria, Sincelejo, and Lorica.

The ports are Cartagena, Tokt, Cobeas, Cispata, and Magangué, all on the Caribbean Sea, except the port of Magangué, situated on the Magdalena River, not far from its junction with the Rivers San Jorge and Cauca. So little visited is the district that few Colombians ever go there except called by business. Lying within the tropics, Cartagena, the capital, is in latitude 10 degrees north.'