The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

Note 313 — Commentaries of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, governor of the Rio de la Plata.

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The Yguatú is an oriental affluent of the Paraná, entering this river at 25° lat. S. The name is not to be found in modern maps.

[314] Anta or tapir.

[315] The Pequiry flows into the Paraná ninety miles north of the Yguassu; the governor of Paraguai founded on its margin the town of Ciudad Real de Guaira in the sixteenth century, destroyed afterwards by the Paulistas.

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