TOPOGRAPHY OF CHILI. 



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The historical mining city of Copiapo stands at an elevation of 1,300 feet on 

 the right bank of a dry watercourse, which formerly ramified in endless branches 

 throughout the upland plains. Here lived the Copayapu Indians, and here the 

 Spanish town was founded during the first years of the Conquest, But its 



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prosperous days date only from 1832, when Juan Godoy discovered the exceed- 

 ingly productive silver lodes near ChanarciUo, 50 miles farther south. Since then 

 the Copiapo district has yielded silver ores to the value of £1,200,000, A statue 

 of the discoverer stands in front of the Mining College at Copiapo, which is 



