The Andes of southern Peru . . \r%.. -) CHAPTER IXCLIMATOLOGY OF THE PERUVIAN ANDES CLIMATIC BELTS The noble proportions of the Peruvian Andes and their posi-tion in tropical latitudes have given them climatic conditions ofgreat diversity. Moreover, their great breadth and continuouslylofty summits have distributed the various climatic types overspaces sufficiently ample to affect large and important groups ofpeople. When we add to this the fact that the topographic typesdeveloped on a large scale are distributed at varying elevations,and that upon them depend to a large degree the chief chara
The Andes of southern Peru . . \r%.. -) CHAPTER IXCLIMATOLOGY OF THE PERUVIAN ANDES CLIMATIC BELTS The noble proportions of the Peruvian Andes and their posi-tion in tropical latitudes have given them climatic conditions ofgreat diversity. Moreover, their great breadth and continuouslylofty summits have distributed the various climatic types overspaces sufficiently ample to affect large and important groups ofpeople. When we add to this the fact that the topographic typesdeveloped on a large scale are distributed at varying elevations,and that upon them depend to a large degree the chief character-istics of the soil, another great factor in human distribution, weare prepared to see that the Peruvian Andes afford some strik-ing illustrations of combined climatic and topographic controlover man. The topographic features in their relations to the people havebeen discussed in preceding chapters. We shall now examine thecorresponding effects of climate. It goes without saying that thetopographic and climatic controls
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