350
Desert Trails of Atacama
- with Copiapó, 107; cross section of life, 188; early northwestern settlements, connection, 108; first city, 104; mountains in the northwest, 189; northwestern, desirability of grassland studies, 317, 318; northwestern, pasture and woodland, 269 (ill.), 270; Puna de Atacama and, 297; Rosario de Lerma sheet, opp. 192 (map); trail from Copiapó into, 106; turno in, 128; woodland and pasture in northwest as affected by climatic change, 317
Arica, 90; campaign against, 90; fall, 92, 93; hill of, 92 (with ill.)
Aridity, cumulative effects, 268. See also Deserts; Dryness
Arizaro, Salina de, 265
Aroma, gorge of, 92
Arqueros, 169
Arrenderos, 209, 210; hacendados and, 210, 211 (diagr.)
Arrieros, 242
Arroyas, 11
Ascotan, 81
Asses, 167, 302-303, 304
Atacama, 83; Desert and Puna, 259 (map); larger significance, 344, 348; pioneer character, 344; political geography, 83; population by censuses, 175
Atacama, Desert of, 15, 259 (map), 266; cross section along parallel 24° 43′ S., 148 (diagr.); dryness, 50; general location map, 10; political history, 85, 86; rains and floods, 40, 41 (diagr.); southern margin, 43, 96; vegetation, 61
Atacama, Puna de, 96, 102, 259 (map); agriculture, 286; cattle drove crossing, 233 (ill.); cattle journeys across, 236; cattle routes across, detailed, 234; climate, 260; cloud zone and woodland and grassland belts on eastern border, 273 (diagr.); contrast with plateaus of Bolivia and Peru, 335; cross section along parallel 24° 43′ S., 148 (diagr.); crossing, 275; definition and description, 257; descent into basin from the east, 276, 277 (ill.); dryness of eastern wall, 260; general location map, 10; geographical significance, 328; habitability in the past, 310; habitations, ancient, 320; highest habitations, 338; human occupation, 294; Indians, conditions, 308; land forms, 252; life of a Puna village, 300; looking east toward mountains, 285 (ill.); mail service, 286; mountain belt, 256; panorama from crest at the eastern border, opp. 278 (ill); pasturage, 282, 338; political dependence, 295; possible development, 342; secondary ranges on the east, 257; settlements, 294, 338; true character, 265; unfavorable conditions, 295; unifying effect on inhabitants, 330; valleys, basins, and mountains, 261 (diagr.); vegetation, 276; water, 278, 280, 282, 284, 285; weather, 279, 281; western mountain divide, 266; western part, 262 (ill.); wind, 232
Atacama, Salar de, 243 (ill.), 245 (ill), 266, 279; camp site on border, 46 (ill.)
Australia, 339
Aymará, 2, 72
Ball, John, 60
Balmaceda, J. M., 94
Barco, 104
Barley, 27, 28, 29, 322
Basins, 254; desert drainage, 47, 48 (map); dryness and, 268; floods in desert basins, 115; interior, piedmont slopes, 276, 277 (ill.); mountain, 25; Puna and eastern border, 261 (diagr.); shore lines of lakes, 311; woodland and interior basin belts, association, 253 (map)
Beasts, patron saints of, 305; prayers for, 306
Belén, 209
Bella Vista, Salar de, 38
Bermejo River, 189, 221, 261; region, 227
Bertrand, Alejandro, 71, 234, 242, 281
