Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Fig. TJ.—Village of Salento, in the Central Cordillera, Colombia. Throughthis town passes the historic Quindiu Trail, reaching from Cartago Fig. 78.—Upper valley of the Quindiu River, Colombia. The forest landbeing cleared out for pasture. (Photograph by T. E. Hazen.) NO. 5 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, ig22 JJ covered with mosses, hepaticae, and ferns. In this zone occasionallyoccur oak forests, recalling vividly our northern woods, and black-berries are to be found. The Temperate Zone is a region of small-leaved, usually dwarfed trees, of bluebe
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Fig. TJ.—Village of Salento, in the Central Cordillera, Colombia. Throughthis town passes the historic Quindiu Trail, reaching from Cartago Fig. 78.—Upper valley of the Quindiu River, Colombia. The forest landbeing cleared out for pasture. (Photograph by T. E. Hazen.) NO. 5 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, ig22 JJ covered with mosses, hepaticae, and ferns. In this zone occasionallyoccur oak forests, recalling vividly our northern woods, and black-berries are to be found. The Temperate Zone is a region of small-leaved, usually dwarfed trees, of blueberries and other ericaceousshrubs, and of open hillsides, where geraniums and Andean generaof the rose family are numerous. The Paramo is the bleak opencountry between timberline and the snows. Here flourish denselywoolly espeletias, bizarre senecios, and many otlier brilliantly floweredherbaceous plants. Travel in Colombia is by railroad, l)y boat, and by horse or construction has necessarily been slow, no road having yetbeen built over the Central Cordillera, while only a single line crossesthe Western Range. In the Cauca Valley construction is beingpushed, though on
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