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The legendary existence of a great inner lake in the centre of South America was believed for several centuries. On the 1559 map by Hondius, the Pantanal is represented as a large lake, “Eupana Lacus”, surrounding an archipelago (Fig. 2). In the 1641 improved edition of the Hondius map, the swampy lake is still there, but no name is given. This lake appeared as the common source of the Paraguay, the Sao Francisco and even of the Amazon (Hoehne, 1936).
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Por, F.D. (1995). Discovery. In: The Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Brazil). Monographiae Biologicae, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0031-1_2
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