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it is bounded by Los Chunchos. This Province of Larecaja is very 

 rough country, vv^ith many villages ; the village of Ambana is on 

 one mountainside, and opposite on another is that of Chuma ; it is 

 4 leagues journey from one to the other, but people's voices in one 

 village can be heard in the other, and they can talk across ; in between 

 the two villages is a tiny valley down in the depths ; this is called 

 Copani ; they have their farms and gardens there, with abundance 

 of native and Spanish fruit; but to reach this valley from either 

 village they have to go down a very steep slope for 2 leagues. 



1630. Next comes Sangavan, with the villages of Itata and Moco- 

 moco, and farther E., the Pelechuco Valley, where the Indians of 

 the Province of Omasuyo have their gardens and farms with fruit 

 and delicacies, which they take out to their province. In it they raise 

 some wheat and plenty of corn, which is the source of supply for 

 most of the provinces of El Collao, since it is so abundant and rich. 

 It has many other villages, and 14 leagues to the E., the valley and 

 village of Camata, which is its easternmost, and the boundary with 

 the mountains and Provinces of Los Chunchos. In this Camata 

 Valley they get an excellent crop of coca. The village and Indians 

 are rich ; they are the encomienda of Pedro Alonso Carrasco. The 

 climate is hot. All the houses in Camata are two stories high ; at 

 night they sleep upstairs, but live downstairs in the daytime. The 

 country is thickly wooded and forested, with tigers, lions, tapirs, 

 and other savage animals. One enters this Province of Larecaja 

 by the villages of Huacho or Carabuco of Omasuyo Province; it has 

 a Corregidor appointed by the Viceroy. 



1631. The Province and Corregimiento of Caracollo and Sicasica 

 is bounded on the N. by the Province of Omasuyo. It contains the 

 villages of Viacha, Ayo Ayo, where there were royal apartments of 

 the Incas, and Sicasica, from which it is 11 leagues to Caracollo. 

 This is built on the wide prairies and plains in which the Province 

 of El Collao terminates. There is also the village of Calamarca, and 

 others. This is all very cold country, like that described, and with 

 wide pastures with flocks and herds, and on the plains, numbers of 

 turrets, which are the tombs of the ancients, with their doors toward 

 the sunrise. In this province there are fine, deep valleys with de- 

 lightful climate, where there are vineyards and where they get 

 quantities of wine, corn, wheat, and Spanish and native fruit. The 

 Viceroy appoints a Corregidor here for its satisfactory government. 

 This is bounded on the W. by the Province of Los Pacajes, on the 

 S. by that of Paria and Oruro, and to the ESE. by the Cochabamba 

 Valley. 



