Sao Francisco

Sao Francisco, a noble river of Eastern Brazil, which rises about 250 miles north-west of Rio, and flows roughly parallel to, and about 300 miles from, the coast for about 1,200 miles, then turning E.S.E. to its two months, of which one is too shallow for navigation and the other blocked by a bar, while cataracts and rapids occur frequently over its course. It has more than twelve considerable affluents. In its lower course it separates the provinces of Pernambuco and Bahia.