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Figure 2.44
Cerro Autana, a tepui in northwestern Amazonas, Venezuela, about 1300 m in
elevation. From O. Huber 1995. Used with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Press, St. Louis.
“Don Francisco de Orellana departed from Quito . . . in February 1541 as a
member of an expedition led by Gonçalo Pizarro in search of cinnamon and
the land of 'El Dorado,' the legendary golden kingdom. When the expedi-
tion ran out of food the situation became perilous, and Pizarro and Orellana
decided to separate. Driven by famine, the latter continued with his men in
