STURDY OXEN till rich soil in the valley of the Rio Rimac, often 

 alongside up-to-date power tractors. Even in agriculture Peru 

 offers strange contrasts of the old and the new. 



ANDEAN HEIGHTS shed their snow to form the Rio Rimac 

 which supplies the water of life for Lima and its gardens. De- 

 pendent on its rivers, the coast is almost rainless. 



