Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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es, such as those of the Pio Coroico, or of the Sorata (Caca orMaipiri). Towards the source of this river stands the health resort of Sorata, alarge place before the insurrection of Tupac Amaru in the eighteenth century.Here all tlie Spaniards of the surrounding districts had taken refuge ; but insteadof waiting to reduce them by siege operations, the descendant of the Incas createda temporary reservoir higher up, and then suddenly discharged its contents on thedoomed city. Those who survived the avalanche of slush and water perished by TOPOGRAPHY OF BOLIVIA. 385 the sword. Sorata still does an active trade with the mining region of Tipuani,the Gold Potosi, which yielded £2,000,000 between the years 1818 and 1868. Coroico, lying on a fertile terrace farther north, an earthly paradise ofbanana and orange groves, is the chief centre of the coca and other plantationsof the Yungas region. The botanist Joseph de Jussieu, who resided at Coroico in Fig. 145.—La Paz—Paxace of Congtîess.
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1740, studied the properties of the coca plant, which he was the iirst to introduceinto Europe. COCHAIJAMBA SaNTA CrUZ. Coehahamha, the Plain of the Lake, so named from the now dry lacustrinedepression where it stands at a height of 8,300 feet, is scarcely inferior to La Pazas a centre of population, despite its unfavourable position for trade in the rugged26 386 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. district about the source of the Mizgue affluent of the Rio Grande. But thedifficulty or lack of communications is counterbalanced by its excellent soil andclimate. The well-cultivated plain yields wheat in abundance, as well as otherproduce utilised by the numerous local industries—woollen and cotton spinningmills, tanneries, soap and starch works. The trade of this flourishing departmentis estimated at one-fourth of the exchanges of the whole republic. Its chiefexports are coca-leaves, cereals, flour, horned cattle, wool, and beer, taken inexchange for cotton fabrics, mostly from North A

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