MATAMOROS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Matamoros

... carefully planted on virgin soil yield a harvest during twenty to twenty-five years, after which they must be replanted every three years. There existed in 1804, at the Hacienda de Matamoros, a square (canaveral) worked during forty-five years. The most fertile soil for the production of sugar is now in the vicinity of Mariel and Guanajay. That variety of sugar-cane known by the name of Cana de Otahiti, recognised at a distance ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt