a province of Peru, bounded on the east by the province of Carabaya, on the south-east by that of Lampa, on the south by Cailloma, and on the west by Chumbivilca. It is thirty leagues in length from north to south, and fifteen in breadth; and being on an elevated situation, and containing numerous ridges covered with snow, its climate is cold. Its inhabitants amount to about 18,000.

CANES Venatici, in Astronomy, the Greyhounds, two constellations, first established by Hevelius, between the tail of the Great Bear and Bootes's arms, above the Coma Berenices. The first is called asterion, being that next the Bear's tail; the other chara.