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Many of these streams are, in fact, not entitled to the name of rivers, though a few of them are important, whilst all are valuable to some extent for agriculture, transportation, irrigation, or occasional water power.

1st. sometimes called also, rises in the forests and mountains of Tarifa in about 16° 43’ north, 96° 33' west from Paris, and debouches in the Pacific, after passing the village of Tehuantepec. The rivers — are small coast streams falling into the lagunes that border the ocean.

2d. The is formed by the union of two streams, one of which rises about fifty leagues west north-west of Tehuantepec, near the village of San Dionisio, whilst the other springs from the mountains of Lyapi and Quiégolani, in the lands of the Chontales. The two unite seven leagues north-west of Tehuantepec; and, passing by the village of that name, this river finally pours into the Pacific, near the small port of Las Ventosas.

3d. The rises in the Upper Misteca, eight leagues north of Oajaca, and falls west of the Cerro de la Plata and of the Lagunas of Chacahua, into the Pacific. On the coast of Oajaca there are many smaller streams and rivulets, such as the —the last of which is the boundary between the states of Oajaca and Puebla.

4th. The or  has its source in the vicinity of the town of Tlascala, in the mountain Atlancatepetl; passes through the state of Puebla, receives the  out of the state of Mexico, and enters the Pacific south of the village of Ayulta.

5th. The or  originates in the valley of Istla, in the state of Mexico, and after winding west south-westerly, it receives the  de  and del  out of the state of Michoacan, and passes into the Pacific.

6th. rises two leagues south-west of the village