The Andes of Southern Peru
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The Andes of Southern Peru includes figures captioned with the upper entrance to the Pongo de Mainique, where the Urubamba crosses the Front Range of the Andes in a splendid gateway 4,000 feet deep. A caption describes the lower half of a two-thousand-foot cliff in the granite Canyon of Torontoy, Urubamba Valley.
Rosalina is described as hardly more than a name on the map and a camp site on the river bank, and the text says no one thought of arranging so difficult a journey in less than a month, since canoe and Indians were difficult to find and the river trip was dangerous. Cochabamba, Bolivia, lies 8,000 feet above sea level in a broad basin in the Eastern Andes, and the basin is dry on account of an eastern front range that keeps out the rain-bearing trade winds. A list of places gives entries such as Quillagua, village, northern Chile, lat. 21° 30′, long. 69° 35′, and Rosalina, settlement, lat. 12° 35′.
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- Isaiah Bowman
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science
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