Atabapo

From the head of a small affluent of the Guainía, a two-day walk brought him to the Río Atabapo, which flowed into the Orinoco.

One River Wade Davis 1996

From the head of a small affluent of the Guainía, a two-day walk brought him to the Río Atabapo, which flowed into the Orinoco.

One River Wade Davis 1996

By the time he reached San Fernando on the Atabapo, he lay prostrate and helpless, and knew that if he continued his journey, he would die.

One River Wade Davis 1996

By the time he reached San Fernando on the Atabapo, he lay prostrate and helpless, and knew that if he continued his journey, he would die.

One River Wade Davis 1996

When in 1756 Solano, commander of the boundary expedition, reached the confluence of the Atabapo with the Orinoco he found there a settlement of Guipuñave, whose chief, won over by Roman years before, not only assented to the establishment of a garrison and mission, San

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Indians, with a crucifix erected at the bow of his boat, he advanced to the Atabapo and then to Brazil by the Negro, returning to the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Here, as on the banks of the Atabapo, we were struck by the sight of a small species of drosera, having exactly the appearance of the drosera of Europe.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

All I could relate of our navigation from Esmeralda to the mouth of the Atabapo would be merely an enumeration of rivers and uninhabited places.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Yet, formerly, whole tribes from the Atabapo and the Cassiquiare have been known to pass the cataracts, in order to take part in the fishery at Uruana.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

I advise those who are not very desirous of seeing the great bifurcation of the Orinoco, to take the way of the Atabapo in preference to that of the Cassiquiare.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851