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C. SKOTTSBERG 



Fig. 49. \'ie\v from Portezuelo de \'illagra looking S\V, with Santa Clara in the background. 



Morro \'inillo in the middle, right the south coast of Masatierra from Bahia Villagra to Pta 



O'Higgins. — Photo C. Skottsberg ^^J^^ 1916. 



extending from M. Vinillo to Los Chamelos. The broad slopes E of Loma 

 Escarpada, locally known as Los bajos de \"illagra, are strewn with lava boulders 

 and furrowed by dry, stony streambeds. In the background two very conspicuous 

 mountains, already seen on the north coast, Co Tres Pimtas and Co Cliumacera 

 (Rowlock Mt., with a deep vertical slit), rise to a height of perhaps 500 m 

 (Branchi's figure 650 is certainly too high). In the dry streambed below Tres 

 Puntas we found a patch of pangue, which reaches its farthest west here. Chu- 

 macera looks like an enormous rock slab standing on end. At the foot water 

 was found also during the dry season, and here is the westernmost luma forest 

 on this side, and below a threshold (see above p. 97 and Skottsb. 3 fig. 36 on 

 p. 896) with a small waterfall a grove of Boe/uneria. The next gully has forest 

 down to about 300 m above the sea. Fig. 50 gives a good idea of the nature 

 of this country. 



On all the earlier charts and maps the bay is presented as forming a regular 

 curve, but the aerial survey proved that this is not the case; see fig. 2. The 

 coast cliffs are lower here than farther west, but there are very few places where 

 it is possible to get down to the water. It can be done not far from Cerro 

 Negro, where we found access to the beach. 



Villagra is watered by three permanent streams and densely wooded. The 

 scenery is even more grand than on the Cumberland side, with the sequence of 



