COLOMBIA Bongo Barges on Rio Magdalena River

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1894 Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York, 5 Bond Street Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper. Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17,5 x 26 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: The section of the Magdalena which extends from the Cauca confluence to the Dique de Calamar, that is, the first branch of its marine delta, has a total length of scarcely more than 60 miles. The Dique (canal) itself is a mere channel 200 or 300 feet wide, and not more than 8 inches deep in some places ; and although it becomes a copious stream, it would soon be obstructed by the aquatic growths and lost in the surrounding swamps were the Dique not kept open by embankments and other artificial works.To the right branch off the Cano San Antonio, the Cano Remolino and several other channels, which traverse the marshy tracts between the mainstream and the Cienaga inlet at the west foot of the Nevada de Santa Marta. But these shallow, sluggish creeks carry off very little water, so that the Magdalena proper retains nearly the whole of its volume as far as the triangular island of Los Gomez where the true delta is formed by its two ramifying branches. The Rio Viejo, or eastern branch, 600 or 800 yards broad, has a depth of not more than 5 feet, and is accessible only to boats. The Boca Ceniza, a western branch, first ascended by steamers in 1857, had a uniform depth of 23 feet in 1875. But it is frequently obstructed, and accidents often occur from the lack of buoys, and especially of regular and continuous surveys. The tides, rising only from 10 to 20 inches, add little to the depth of water at the dangerous bar, which is consequently avoided by large vessels. Otherwise they could easily ascend some 200 miles to Tacaloa, at the Cauca confluence, this lower reach being nowhere less than 26 feet deep. Savanilla, the maritime port, stands not at the entrance, but on the west coast, and is connected by rail with Barranquilla, the riverine port on the left bank near the head of the delta. This place, like so many others, has been left a little to the west by the main branch, which is gradually being displaced eastwards. Between Barranquilla and the Honda rapids the voyage by steamer averages 5 or 6 days down, and from 10 to 15 up stream. Formerly the bongos and champanes (barges) often took two or three months to make the ascent. Between the Magdalena delta and the Gulf of Uraba the Sinu is the only river reaching the coast. It rises in the Paramillo uplands, and ramifies, like the Magdalena, into a labyrinth of shifting branches in an old lacustrine district, now half filled up by alluvial matter. Beyond this inland delta all the waters are again collected in a single channel, which discharges about 11,500 cubic feet per second into the Morosquillo Gulf. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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Location: Manassas, Virginia

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