THATCHED HUTS with adobe-walled courtyards and fences of 

 native cactus nestle beside a tile-roofed barn of modern adobe 

 construction in the countryside near Cajabamba. The name is 

 translated to mean box plain. Riobamba means river plain. 

 Eucalypti towering above native trees probably were imported 

 from the Antipodes, as were those common in California. 



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