Excerpt from The Agrarian Indian Communities of Highland Bolivia Yet large tracts of the highlands are utterly unfit for cultivation or for human habitation. The lofty mountain regions (above feet) are thinly peopled, as are also great expanses on the altiplano where deposits of salt, borax, and other mineral sub stances are located in an almost absolute desert. This has crowded the inhabitants into certain Closely restricted areas, in which sufficient soil exists to render agriculture possible. Some of the high valleys ...
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Excerpt from The Agrarian Indian Communities of Highland Bolivia Yet large tracts of the highlands are utterly unfit for cultivation or for human habitation. The lofty mountain regions (above feet) are thinly peopled, as are also great expanses on the altiplano where deposits of salt, borax, and other mineral sub stances are located in an almost absolute desert. This has crowded the inhabitants into certain Closely restricted areas, in which sufficient soil exists to render agriculture possible. Some of the high valleys from to feet above sea level and selected spots about Lake Titicaca show from 40 to 100 persons per square mile, being in many cases made up almost entirely of rural inhabitants.2 These thickly settled centers of population are usually far separated from each other. They are divided one from the other by high ridges, insurmountable ranges, almost impassable torrents, or on the altiplano by extensive semi-desert wastes. About the shores of Lake Titicaca great irregularity of the coast line has contributed to the isolation of the individual settlements located there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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