Codera

Codera, which is there seen in its full extent seven miles distant.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Higuerote; and, luckily for them, safe out of the short heavy swell which it causes round Cape Codera.

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Codera, the lord of which was called Nigoroto; this is either a personal name or else one common to all the lords of that country.

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Four or five leagues south of the northern chain (that of Mariara, La Silla and Cape Codera) the mountains of Guiripa, Ocumare and Panaquire form the southern chain of the coast, which stretches in a parallel direction from Guigue to the mouth of the Rio Tuy, by the Guesta of Yusma and the Guacimo.

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Ocumare, receives the waters of the valley of Caracas, and reaches the sea near cape Codera.

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After the remarkable interruption of the littoral Cordillera in the province of Barcelona, granitic rocks begin to appear in the island of Marguerita and in the isthmus of Araya, and continue, perhaps, towards the Boca del Drago; but on the east of the meridian of Cape Codera the northern chain only is granitic (of micaceous slate); the southern chain is entirely composed of secondary limestone and sandstone.

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On the west of Cape Codera the northern chain, composed of primitive granitic rocks, presents the loftiest summits of the whole

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Codera to La Guayra, and although the boats have an enormous triangular sail, somewhat dangerous in those gusts which issue from the mountain-passes, no instance has occurred during thirty years, of one of these boats being lost in the passage from Cumana to the coast of Caracas.

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The length of the passage from Cumana to La Guayra depends on the degree of ease or difficulty with which Cape Codera can be doubled.

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Cape Codera seems to terminate the northern range of the littoral mountains of Venezuela but this termination is only apparent.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851