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LANGUI: village, province of Canas, Dept. Cuzco, above 12000 feet elevation 
on Sicuani-Yauri highway. River of same name adjacent.** 
La Paz: capital of Bolivia, and divided by stream of same name; elevation 
11000 feet. The stream deeply entrenched in a canyon which has pirated a sec- 
tion of the eastern border of the Titicaca basin.* 
La Peruvian: Peruvian Corporation’s hacienda on the Perené.* 
La Raya: (see Aguas Calientes); pass over the Nudo de Vilcanota connecting 
the headwaters of the Rio Vilcanota (Atlantic drainage) with those of the Rio de 
Pucara (Titicaca basin); traversed by the Southern railway.* 
Leauia, Purerro (renamed during the Leguia administration; formerly 
Puerto Pardo); military outpost at Ecuadorean frontier four days by launch up 
the Rio Morona.* 
Liprz: see Rio Grande de Lipez.* 
Loa, Rio: a small Chilean river arising in the volcanic section of the Andes 
near Ascotan, elevation 12000-13000 feet, draining circuitously to the Pacific; 
mostly diverted for mining and irrigation.* 
Manaos: our final collecting ground; central Amazon, state of Upper 
Amazonas, some ten miles up the Rio Negro.* 
Manpor Pampa: on the right bank of the upper Urubamba, above Santa 
Ana: ** 
MANSERICHE, PONGO DE: canyon through which the Alto Maranon breaks 
the last barrier of the Andes to the Amazonian plain; formerly regarded as the 
greatest barrier, but at the time of my visit had been negotiated by steam launch 
no fewer than five times, frequently by raft in the downstream direction.* 
Manraro, Rio: its headwaters in the Pampa de Junin, and several streams 
entering Lago Chinchaycocha; flows southeastward between eastern and western 
cordilleras, via Oroya, Jauja, and Huancayo; a good-sized, clear, rock-bedded 
stream. During recent years successfully stocked with North American rainbow 
trout by the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries and the Cerro de Pasco Company. Used 
for hydroelectric purposes at the Oroya smelter and the copper mining district.** * 
MagQueEria: small village above Contamana, near Cashiboya lake and village, 
on the right bank of the Ucayali. Also the name of the nearby cutoff lake formed 
by the Ucayali, with clear, brown water and much decayed vegetation.* 
Maranon, Rio: see Amazon.* 
MAaARAVILLAS: station on Southern railway, smelter, mine, near 14006 feet 
elevation, Rio de Lampa valley, southern Peru.* 
Marcapata: river and valley of, in the eastward extension of the province of 
Quispicanchis, Dept. Cuzco, flowing eastward to the Rio Inambari and Madre de 
Dios; reached by road from Urcos in the Cuzco valley. 
Mauri, Rio: tributary of the middle course of Rio Desaguadero.* 
Mep1a Luna: on the upper Rio Urubamba.** 
MELENDEZ, PurERTO: military outpost just below the Pongo de Manseriche 
on the Peruvian Amazon.* 
MrrRIATIRANI: seventh government tambo, or rest-house, on the Via Central, 
