The earth and its inhabitants .. . U AMERICA—TUE ANDES REGIONS. the slopes, the quebrada (gorge) expands to a broad lacustrine basin, which wasafterwards discharged through a ravine caused bj erosion. The houses o£ La Paz are constructed on both sides of the rivulet, whence aview is commanded of the lower vallejs beyond the winding and verdantqiiehrada. ]5ut the city lies too high for its gardens and promenades skirting thetorrent to nourish any but a stunted growth of hardy apples and other treeswhich, however, retain their foliage through the winter. Towards the south-eastthe horizon is boun
The earth and its inhabitants .. . U AMERICA—TUE ANDES REGIONS. the slopes, the quebrada (gorge) expands to a broad lacustrine basin, which wasafterwards discharged through a ravine caused bj erosion. The houses o£ La Paz are constructed on both sides of the rivulet, whence aview is commanded of the lower vallejs beyond the winding and verdantqiiehrada. ]5ut the city lies too high for its gardens and promenades skirting thetorrent to nourish any but a stunted growth of hardy apples and other treeswhich, however, retain their foliage through the winter. Towards the south-eastthe horizon is bounded by the sparkling crest of Illimani. The Tia Paz torrent,as well as the neighbouring brooks, washes down auriferous sands. But the localmining industry has no longer the importance that it formerly possessed, andLa Paz owes its present prosperity to the traffic carried on with the agriculturaldistricts of the Yungas, which here exchange their produce for foreign wares. Fig. Ml.—La Paz A>rD Ekvibons. Scale 1 : 2, ^aJamarca ^-^X^ V; est or Green 38 Miles. The only noteworthy monument is the sumptuous cathedral, built at a time whenthe silver-mines of Potosi were controlling the money markets of the culture is represented by a university, some high schools, and othereducational establishments. Below the gorge the La Paz takes the name of Beni, and is joined b) severalauriferous streams from the great mining district, which is api)roacbed by severaldifficult routes, such as those of the Rio 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 all the 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. Tliose w
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