358
Desert Trails of Atacama
- 340; Andes, 339; northwestern Argentina, as affected by climatic change, 317; oases in the Puna de Atacama, 246; Puna de Atacama, 338, 340; rainfall and, 57, 58; woodland and, 269 (ills.), 270; woodland and, on eastern border, 273 (diagrs.)
Pata del oro, 137
Patagonia, 255, 256
Pavement, desert, 17 (ill.)
Peaks, 252
Peary, R. E., 4
Peña, petroglyphs, 249 (ills.)
Peñas Blancas, 212, 258, 260, 274, 275, 338; hut and corral, 301 (ill.)
Penck, Walther, 261, 263, opp. 278, 292, 314, 316
Peñon Syndicate, 264, 266
Peon de campo, 224
Peons, 210, 326
Pepper tree, 156 (ill.)
Perico, 225
Perkins, F, N., 181
Peru, 51; coastal belt fogs and rains, 52, 55; cultivation of high plateau, 331; eastern mountain belt, 336; revolutions, 346; viceroyalty of, 108
Peruvian worship, 306
Peruvo-Chilean boundary, 84
Pesse, A,, 171
Petroglyphs, 249 (ills.), 250
Philippi, R. A., 160, 174
Pica, 8, 19, 71, 72, 73, 78; forage, price, 66; water tunnels, 20
Pica, Altos de, 19, 24, 34
Pictographs, 250
Piedmont, eastern border of intermont basins, 276, 277 (ill.)
Piedmont oases, 18. See also Oases
Pilcomayo River, 22
Piles of stones, 23 (ill.), 24, 103, 282, 288
Pingo-pingo, 241 (ill.), 242, 299
Pioneer life, 344; Chaco region, 218
Pioneers, 4
Pique, 36
Pircas, 103
Pisagua, 16, 78, 89, 95; flood, 42
Piura rains, 184 (diagr.)
Pizarro, Francisco, 84
Placilla, 171
Plagemann, A,, 16, 250
Plains, interrelations with mountains, 336, 337
Plant geography of Bolivia and southern Peru, 337
Plata region, 108, 186, 199
Playa Blanca, 80
Playa lands, 189
Pneumonia, 294
Poisonous grass, 284, 299
Polar regions, 1, 3, 4
Political geography of Atacama, 83
Political refugees, 237
Political unity, 345
Poma, 214, 257, 275; Calchaqui valley and, 202; houses, 213; main street, 212 (ill.); route to, 204; site, 207
Ponchos, 231
Poopó, Lake, contrast with Lake Titicaca, 334
Population, 60; density, 343; effect of Spanish Conquest, 324; nitrate desert, 60; towns in Chile, 110
Ports, 166; Atacama Desert, 97; trade, 175
Porunero, 168
Potosí, 163, 164, 193, 251, 290
Pozo Almonte, 78; flood, 42
Precipitation. See Rainfall
Pre-Cordillera, 289
Prices of commodities, 65
Prospectors, 165, 167
Provisions for the nitrate industry, 76, 78, 79 (ill.)
Pucará, 248 (with ill.), 250; Andalgalá, 311; pass of, 289; Rinconada, 320
Puerto Acosto, 341
Puerto Caldera, 162
Puerto Viejo, 97, 178
Puna. See Atacama, Puna de
Puno, 237
Punta de Foca, 150
Punta Negra, Salar de, 266, 267
Puquios, 172, 178, 179
Pyrenees, 330
Quebracho, 221
Quebradas, 24
Quechua, 2, 72, 163
