Montes Claros
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This bridge was built in the years 1638-1640, when the Marquis de Montes Claros was viceroy of Peru.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
The latter suggested the Montes Claros of the Portuguese.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Not in the full tide of success, not on the field of Montes Claros, not under the walls of Maestricht, had he so well deserved the admiration of mankind.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The forest of Miédes, now have they overpassed, And on through Montes Claros they pricked forward spurring fast.
From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon
The narrative of Ocampo, written many years after the event, is addressed to the Viceroy Marquis of Montes Claros.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
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