CLIMATE OF ECUADOE. 



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" summer," when the air is drier than during the rest of the year, while the land 

 and sea breezes alternate pleasantly, dispersing both the mosquitos and the marshy 

 exhalations. Then follows the " winter," or rainy season, with its fierce heats 



Fig. 93. — Rainfall and Forests of Ecuadoe. 

 Scale 1 : 5,500,000. 



Perennial Snows. 



Paiamos. 



Andean forests. Inter-Andean Regions. 



Cere lis. 



mm 



Moist Regions of the Cacao Plantations. 



Pacific Slope. 



Arid Regions. 

 124 Miles. 



during the day, its storms at evening and at night, its downpours, destructive 

 floods, swarms of pestiferous insects, and often its epidemics. 



On the inter- Andean uplands the alternation of seasons is half effaced by the 



