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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt, oil on canvas by Julius Schrader, 1859; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Alexander von Humboldt began his journey through Venezuela in Caracas. From there, he and the French botanist Aimé Bonpland traveled south through grasslands and scrublands to reach the Apure River, eventually continuing their expedition by canoe into the Orinoco River basin.1