Index
359
Queñoa, 284
Quillagua, 8, 38, 60
Quimal, Llano del, 34
Quinoa, 28, 2
Quiron, Salar de, 282, 283 (ill.)
Quisco, 137
Quisma, Quebrada de, 19, 78
Railroads, 70, 80, 95, 216; Antofagasta, 235; Argentine connection with Chile, 97; Bolivia, 220; Chaco, 219; conquest of mountain and desert, 7; Copiapó, 176; earliest, 176; mining industry and, 328; pack trains and, 71; primitive nature of trains, 111; sail car, 79 (ill.); trail vs. railroad, 290
Rainfall, 19; Argentina, northwestern, 270; Chile, 43; Copiapó and Piura, 184 (diagr.); Copiapó chances, 113; cultivation in relation to, 49; curve and prediction, 184 (diagr.), 185; dates and amount 1888–1913, 44; dependence of the people on, 117; desert, 40, 41 (diagr.); limits of zone of maximum in present and in Pleistocene time, 316 (diagr.); Peru, coastal belt, 55; rains of 1911, 42; salars in relation to, 335: single shower, effect, 50, 114; temperatures and, in the Puna, 278; transportation rates in relation to, 58; wet years and dry years, 118; year of abundant, 132
Ramón, Garcia, 172
Ranch for raising alfalfa and live stock, 134
Ranch house at Finca Santa Lucia, 195 (ill.)
Ranges and their products, 330
Ravines, 34, 35
Red sandstone, 258
Regionalism, 348
Religion, 72; miners’, 168; mixture of rites, 72; services of priest, 213; Susques Indians, 304, 305
Reorganization, economic, 292; commercial companies, 292; railroads, 290
Reservoirs, 78
Revolutionists, 237
Revolutions, 109, 346; Chile, 1891, 94
Richards Deep, 148 (diagr.)
Rincon, 282, 284
Rinconada, 250, 307; Pucará ruin, 320
River steamers, 227
Rivers, 11; basis of life, 111; clearing bed, 197 (ill.); dependence of oases on mountain streams, 64; Puna, eastern border, 261
Roads, desert, 103, 104
Roaring Mountain of Toledo, 155, 158 (ill.), 160 (ill.)
Roca, J. A., 198
Rogers, Mr., 24
Romaña estate, 327
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1, 4, 218
Rosario, 187, 201
Rosario de Lerma, 191, 204, 257, 271
Rosario de Lerma sheet, opp. 192 (map)
Routes across the Cordillera from the east, 199-200. See also Trails
Rubber forests, 325
Ruins at Pucará, 311, 313 (plan)
Sahara, 61
Saints, 72, 305, 306
Sajama, 252
Sal, Cerros de la, 34
Salado River, 85, 201
Salars, 18, 265, 283 (ills.), 303, 335
Salinas, 81, 263 (ill.), 265
Salinas Grandes, 303, 306
Salitreras, 42, 78, 80
Salt, 260, 268; ancient industry, 303; cost, 176; fields, 263 (ills.); incrustations, 49
Salt basins in the Puna, 282, 253 (ills.)
Salta, 97, 104, 186, 303, 304; as route station, 198; basin, 148 (diagr.), 190 (ill.), 191; development, recent, 191
Saltpeter, Chile, 75. See also Nitrate
Sama River, 83, 90
San Andrés, 72
San Antonio de los Cobres, 200, 295, 298, 338
San Felix, 147
San Francisco, battle of, 91
