Richard Spruce Collection

 

Spruce's travels for 1857
Taken from Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (1908)

 
Go to top of pageMarch
22nd

left Tarapoto, going downriver on the Río Huallaga

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6th

left Lagunas (La Laguna) and upriver on the Río Marañon

7th

entered the Río Marañon, reached a small collection of six houses

9th

came to the deserted village of "Shiruri"

11th

reached the mouth of the Río Pastaza (Pastasa)

26th : 3.30 pm

reached the village of "Pinches Nuevo"

29th : am

reached the village of Andoas on the left bank of the Río Pastaza (Pastasa)

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5th : midday

left Andoas

6th

left the Río Pastaza and entered the mouth of the Río Bombonaza (Bombanasa)

14th

passed the mouth of the Río Pucayacu (Puca-yacu)

15th : 5.30 pm

reached "Palisada-Zipishko" and remained all night on an island

19th : 10.30 am

stopped at the mouth of Quebrada Sarayacu (the Saru-yacu stream)

19th : 4:30

reached the village of Sarayacu (Saru-yacu)

21st : 4 pm

reached the port of Pucayacu (Puca-yacu)

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10th : 8 am

left Pucayacu (Puca-yacu)

12th

reached Canelos

14th

left Canelos to resume ascent of Río Bombonaza

 

intensive collecting along the trail from Canelos to Baños

23rd

reached Quebrada "Allpa-yacu"

24th Image: Rio Pastaza

climbed over "Abitagua", an arm of the Cerro de los Llanganates, to reconnect with the Río Pastaza

26th

following the Río Pastaza along its banks

29th

reached Río Verde

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 1st

arrived in Baños

 

Photographs courtesy of S. Knapp (The Natural History Museum, London.)


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