Regional conferences in Latin America; . pulation of 1,279,359 in 1913, has aterritory of 186,926 square kilometers, without forestsor mountains. Of the total population, 350,526 live inMontevideo. During the past five years the immigrationwas 417,409. Stock raising and agriculture are the mainsources of the countrys wealth. Paraguay is situated in the center of the continent,with a territory of 253,100 square kilometers, most ofwhich is in the Chaco, west of the Paraguay River. Thetotal population is calculated at 800,000, including 100,000Indians. Paraguay, like Uruguay, is also a plain. The
Regional conferences in Latin America; . pulation of 1,279,359 in 1913, has aterritory of 186,926 square kilometers, without forestsor mountains. Of the total population, 350,526 live inMontevideo. During the past five years the immigrationwas 417,409. Stock raising and agriculture are the mainsources of the countrys wealth. Paraguay is situated in the center of the continent,with a territory of 253,100 square kilometers, most ofwhich is in the Chaco, west of the Paraguay River. Thetotal population is calculated at 800,000, including 100,000Indians. Paraguay, like Uruguay, is also a plain. Theclimate is even and quite healthful, with nine months of perpetual spring and three of heat, an excellent livingclimate. SOCIAL CONDITIONS In comparison with other parts of Latin America, theproportion of European blood in these countries is high,about half of all the whites (pure) in Latin America liv-ing in Argentina,and Uruguay. Indian blood is almostentirely absent except in the far north and south ofArgentina (Chaco and Patagonia).. SURVEY AND OCCUPATION 153 The original stock was Spanish and only within the lastthirty or forty years has it become cosmopolitan. Thefollowing table of nationalities shows the trend of thiscosmopolitanism, giving the particulars of the foreignpopulation (1,001,899) in Argentina in 1900. As will benoted, ninety-two per cent, of the foreigners are Latinsand eight per cent, of other races: Italians 493,000 of population Spanish 198,790 3-9 French 94,000 British 21,800 .4 Germans 17,100 •34 Austrians 12,800 .25 Swiss 14,800 .29 Other Europeans 30,567 .60 Brazilians 24,724 .60 Bolivians 7,361 .18 Chilians 20,594 .50 North Americans 1,381 .03 Uruguayans 48,650 Paraguayans 14,562 .35 A less complete but more recent list (1912) gives thenumber of foreigners as 1,750,000, of whom 850,000 areItalians, 450,000 Spanish, 100,000 French, 30,000 British,25,000 Austrians, 22,000 Germans, 17,000 Swiss, and256,000 others. As all those born in Ar
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