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OCANA

Volume 16 · 169 words · 1860 Edition

a town of Spain, in the province of Toledo, 35 miles S. of Madrid, and 26 E. of Toledo. It is an ancient town, built on the sides and top of a hill, and is surrounded by ruinous walls. The streets are narrow and ill built, but there are several handsome squares, churches, convents, schools, an hospital, and a prison. The town is supplied with water by a stone aqueduct of nineteen arches, supposed to have been built by the Romans. Manufactures of soap, bricks, earthenware, cloth, &c., are carried on. In the neighbourhood the Spaniards sustained in 1809 a signal defeat from the French. Pop. 4789.

a town of New Granada, capital of a province of the same name in the department of Guanentá, on the Oro, 60 miles N.W. of Pamplona. It stands among the Andes; and there are copper mines in the vicinity. Some trade is carried on by the River Oro and the Canaverales, into which it falls. Pop. of town, 5500; of province, 23,450.