. The Andes of southern Peru; geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian. Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911); Physical geography; Geology. 58 THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU Whenever streams descend from the snow or woodland coun- try there is water for the stock above and for irrigation on the alluvial fan below. But the spur ends dropping off abruptly sev-. Fig. 32—Regional diagram representing the deep eanyoned country west of the Eastern Cordillera in the region of the Apurimac. For photograph see Fig. 94. For further description see note on regional diagrams, p. 51. Numbers 1, 2
. The Andes of southern Peru; geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian. Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911); Physical geography; Geology. 58 THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU Whenever streams descend from the snow or woodland coun- try there is water for the stock above and for irrigation on the alluvial fan below. But the spur ends dropping off abruptly sev-. Fig. 32—Regional diagram representing the deep eanyoned country west of the Eastern Cordillera in the region of the Apurimac. For photograph see Fig. 94. For further description see note on regional diagrams, p. 51. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 corre- spond in position to the same numbers in Fig. 33. eral thousand feet have a limited area and no running streams, and the ground water is hundreds of feet down. There is grass for stock, but there is no water. In some places the stock is driven. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950; American Geographical Society of New York. New York, Published for the Americsn Geographical Society of New York by H. Holt
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