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Richard Spruce Collection
 

Spruce's travels for 1856
Taken from Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (1908)

  
Spruce did not keep a regular diary during his stay in Tarapoto, his accounts of the time he spent in there are gleaned mainly from letters and notebook entries.
Image: Plaza de Armas Tarapoto Resident in Tarapoto
Image: Cataratas at Ahuashiyacu Río Ahuashiyacu
Image: Forest 30km from Tarapoto-Yurimaguas

"Maynesian Andes", including the rich fern locality Spruce called Guayrapurima

Image: Tarapoto-Yurimaguas to S.Paredon Image: Tarapoto side of La Escalera
Image: Maynesian Andes Paredon Image: Cerro de la Escalera km17 Tarapoto-Yurimaguas

views of the mountain ranges where Spruce collected
Image: Cerro Isco summit Cerro Pelado and the Alto Cumabasa

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


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