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Indians. Although Oran is accessible to river craft all the way from Buenos 

 Ayres (1,850 miles), its traffic is carried on mainly by the overland route to the 

 Jujuy railway, pending the construction of a local branch in connection with that 

 line. 



South-eastwards lies the agricultural colony of Rimdavia, on the E,io Teuco, 

 where numerous Bolivian squatters have received allotments of 1,250 acres per 



Fig-. 168. — Gexeeal View of Jujuy. 



family. Rivadavia is connected by a military carriage -road with the station of 

 Puerto Berniejo on the Paraguay. 



Towxs OF THE Province of Salta. 



Salfa, capital of the province of like name, stands on the Lerma plain, which 

 is watered by the Rio Arias, and numerous tagaretes, as the irrigation canals are 



