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ZONES AND REGIONS [Pt. Ill, Sect. I 



Tropical Xerophilous Woodland Climate. 



THE SERTAO. 

 (After Draenert in Meteorol. Zeitschr,, 1886, p. 390, and 1SS9, p. 28.) 



5. CLIMATE OF NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA AND OF 



THE ANTILLES. 



Between the richly forested districts of the Amazon basin and of th 

 southern part of the Orinoco basin lies the snnall savannah district ( 

 Guiana, regarding the climate of ^\■hich there are no data. North of tl" 

 Orinoco, up to the wooded mountainous coasts of the Caribbean Sc 

 stretches the wide prairie district of the llanos-, usually a typical savanna. 

 in some places with very scattered trees, in others with more dense! 

 crowded trees. According to my own observations, high-forest occu 

 as fringing-forest along the water-courses ; savannah-forest occurs at tl 

 foot of the Cordilleras on the cos-st, pari passu with an increasing rainfa 



