The international geography . urces and Trade.—Peru is richly endowed with naturalresources of all kinds, but the great need is population to utilise them. Onthe coast the guano of the Chincha Islands wasa source of wealth for nearly thirty years, but itwas exhausted in 1872, and much smaller quan-tities are now obtained from the Guahape, Macabi,Malabrigo, and Lobos Islands further north. Ini860 the idea of refining the extensive suppliesof petroleum found in the desert between therivers Tumbez and Chira was conceived. The Fig. ,vian coast valleys produce cotton, sugar,
The international geography . urces and Trade.—Peru is richly endowed with naturalresources of all kinds, but the great need is population to utilise them. Onthe coast the guano of the Chincha Islands wasa source of wealth for nearly thirty years, but itwas exhausted in 1872, and much smaller quan-tities are now obtained from the Guahape, Macabi,Malabrigo, and Lobos Islands further north. Ini860 the idea of refining the extensive suppliesof petroleum found in the desert between therivers Tumbez and Chira was conceived. The Fig. ,vian coast valleys produce cotton, sugar, tobacco, rice, wine andspirits from the vineyards of Yea and Pisco, Moquegua and cultivable area on the coast will some day be quadrupled bythe extension of irrigation works. In the Andes there are numerousmines of silver, copper, gold and coal, the chief centres of the silver-mining industry being at Cerro Pasco and Puno ; the total outputof silver is nearly half a million pounds sterling; and of copper little. Peru 837 less. The yield of wool from the flocks of alpacas, and from thewild vicunas is a source of wealth peculiar to Peru. The vegetableproducts of the Andes include the finest maize in the world, the potato andseveral other edible roots, and there are vast areas admirably adapted forraising wheat and barley, and rearing cattle. In the ravines, on the easternslopes of the Andes, cacao, coffee, tobacco, and coca, another valuableproduct peculiar to Peru, all of excellent quality, are produced. Amongthe wild products are the cinchona bark and india-rubber. The chiefexports of Peru are sugar, silver, cotton, wool, rubber and coca of the trade is with the United Kingdom, Germany comingsecond. Railways.—In 1902 the length of the railways in Peru was 1,035 on the coast, twelve in number, are intended to bring the produceof the various fertile tracts on the riverbanks to the ports. The work on themarvellous railroad over the Maritime
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