Index
353
Community, 347; changing orientation in desert, 251; water supply, 121
Compañía Agricola, 134, 135
Conde Duque, 237 (ill.), 241
Conduits, 20, 321
Conquest. See Spanish Conquest
Conquistadores, 84
Copiapó, 8, 43, 49, 51, 85; cattle trade with Argentina, 107; central plaza, 107 (ill.); changes in life, 106; character, 98, 99; copper period, 174; drought of 1877, 121; drought of 1923, 114; earthquakes, 143; floods, 116; fog and cloud, 52; foundation, 102; geographical situation, 105; history,
99; house types, 144; mining industry, 162; panorama, opp. 110 (ill); physical basis of life, 109; population, 109, 168, 169; port for, 96, 97; railroad, 176; rainfall, 44, 45, 47, 184 (diagr.); street scene, 107 (ill.); trail to the east, 106; view with river at low water, 98 (ill,); wood supply, 136
Copiapó Mining Co., 165, 168, 178; earthquake of 1859, 143; records and letters, 180; sketch of mines and estates in 1835, 177 (map), 183-185
Copiapó River, 113, 115, 185, 280
Copiapó valley, 266; disposition of cultivated land, 156, 157 (ill.); upper part, opp. 110 (ill.)
Coposa, 29
Copper, 88, 100, 163; Copiapó and, 174; mining, 172; modern mines, 180
Copper Mines of Copiapó, Ltd., 180. See also Copiapó Mining Co.
Coquimbo, 43, 51, 149, 162, 174; copper, 173
Coquimbo valley, 170
Cordillera de los Andes, 261, 266
Cordilleran slopes, 22
Córdoba, 189, 194
Corn, 286, 302, 322
Corocoro, 217
Corporaca, 196
Corrals, 212, 296 (ill.), 300, 301 (ill.)
Corregidor, 341
Cotton, 164
Court testimony of heretics, 183
Cowboys, 229 (ill.), 230
Cross, wooden, 23 (ill.)
Crustal movements, 150, 153 (map)
Cuadra, P. L., 174, 178
Cúcuter, 242
Cuesta del Obispo, 204, 257, 261, 273; looking east and west from, 203 (ills.)
Cueva Negra, 26
Cuevo, 219
Cultivation, 321
Cummings, R. W., 134
Customhouse, Chilean, 238, 239 (ill.)
Cuyo, 108, 129
Cuzco, 340
Darwin, Charles, I, 152, 181; on coastal fog, 53; on Copiapó, 169; on effect of a single shower, 50; on the Roaring Mountain of Toledo, 155
David, T. W. E., 4
Dávila Boza, Ricardo, 169
Davis, A. P., 20
Davis, W. G., 279
Denis, Pierre, 128, 130, 209
Derroteros, 167
Desaguadero River, 334
Desert settlements, 111; changing orientation, 251; nature and organization, 111. See also Oases
Deserts, 3; Andean desert, 7; borders, 8; campaigning in a desert, 91; Chile, northern, 11; definition of desert, 61; drainage types, 47, 48 (map); floods in basins, 115; fog, 53; inhabitants, 5, 8, 14; isolated settlement, 38; landscape in Chile and in Peru, 11; littoral, 52; moist sand, 56; pavement, 17 (ill.); rainfall, 40; travel, 11, 14; United States, Southwest, 317; vegetation, 60
Despoblado, 200
Díaz, Guilberto, 202, 210
Discovery, 1
Distance, 345-346
Domeyko, Cordillera, 142, 171, 264 (map), 266
Drainage, 47; Andes, 255; desert types, 47, 48 (map); shift in, 320
