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wheat area). It sank at Santa Fe (350 per 1,000), 

 in spite of considerable immigration in the southern 

 maize-growing departments. At the same time there 

 was a great influx of foreign population in the pro- 

 vince of Cordoba (200 per 1,000) and in the area of 

 the Central Pampa (360 per i,ooo). r 



The recent enumerations also enable us to follow 

 the displacements of the indigenous population on 

 Argentine territory and the part this has had in 

 colonization. Outside the Pampean region the parts 

 of the country which have proved centres of attraction 

 for the Argentine population are the sugar provinces 

 of Tucuman and Jujuy and the province of Mendoza. 

 In 1895 Tucuman had 40,000 inhabitants who had 

 been born in other provinces, Jujuy 15,000 and 

 Mendoza 19,000. The attraction of Tucuman was 

 mainly felt in the adjoining province of Santiago 

 (12,000 immigrants) and Catamarca (12,000). At 

 Mendoza the immigrants came mainly from San 

 Juan (7,000) and San Luis (3,000). The attraction 

 of the timber region is more difficult to estimate, 

 because most of the obrajes are in the province of 

 Santiago, which found the workers itself, and the 

 enumerations have not taken into account displace- 

 ments within each province. Nevertheless, immigration 

 into the land of the quebracho Chaqueno, along the 

 Parana, can be recognised from 1895 onward. It was 

 maintained by the Corrientes province. Santa Fe 

 has 10,000 immigrants from Corrientes, of whom 

 6,500 are in the forestry departments of Reconquista 

 and Vera. The Chaco region maintains 2,000 Cor- 

 rientes wood-cutters and several hundred from Santiago 



1 I have referred elsewhere to the magnitude of the stream of 

 European immigration at Mendoza. In Patagonia (territory of the 

 Rio Negro, the Neuquen, the Chubut, the Santa Cruz, and Tierra 

 del Fuego, of which the total population is only 104,000) sheep-breeding 

 has attracted a considerable number of immigrants (428 foreigners 

 per 1000 in 1914). 



