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in this province, such as Asillo, Azangaro, Oruro, and others, are 

 very rich and large. In its district they raise great numbers of llamas 

 and Castilian merino sheep and cattle. No crops are grown in this 

 province except potatoes, for it is very cold all the time ; but it is 

 abundantly supplied with everything necessary for human life through 

 having hot valleys close at hand, from which they bring everything 

 up to it. The Indians wear their native woolen costume, and the 

 Indian women likewise, except that on their heads they wear as a 

 covering a black woolen bonnet which they call a panta ; this is over 

 half a vara high and terminates in a sort of a crescent ; that is the 

 usual headdress of all the Indian women in El Collao. In this province 

 the Viceroy appoints a Corregidor for its satisfactory government 

 and the administration of justice. 



To one side of this province, before reaching Paucarcolla, there 

 is another, whose villages are Taraco, Pusi, Saman, and others ; 

 their climate is the same at that just described ; they have large llama 

 and sheep ranches. The Viceroy appoints a Corregidor here for the 

 dispensing of justice and for its wise administration. 



