CONTENTS 



PART I 



HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. The Regions of Peru 1 



II. The Rapids and Canyons op the Urubamba .... 8 



III. The Rubber Forests 22 



IV. The Forest Indians 36 



V. The Country op the Shepherds 46 



VI. The Border Valleys of the Eastern Andes .... 68 

 VII. The Geographic Basis of Revolutions and of Human 



Character in the Peruvian Andes 88 



VIII. The Coastal Desert 110 



IX. Climatology of the Peruvian Andes 121 



X. Meteorological Records from the Peruvian Andes . . 157 



PART II 



PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE PERUVIAN ANDES 



XL The Peruvian Landscape 183 



XII. The Western Andes: The Maritime Cordillera or Cor- 

 dillera Occidental 199 



XIII. The Eastern Andes : The Cordillera Vilcapampa . . 204 



XIV. The Coastal Terraces 225 



XV. Physiographic and Geologic Development .... 233 



XVI. Glacial Features 274 



Appendix A. Survey Methods Employed in the Construction of 



the Seven Accompanying Topographic Sheets . 315 



Appendix B. Fossil Determinations 321 



Appendix C. Key to Place Names 324 



Index 327 



TOPOGRAPHIC SHEETS 



Camana Quadrangle 114 



Aplao " 120 



Coropuna 188 



Cotahuasi " 192 



La Cumbre " 202 



Antabamba " 282 



Lambrama " 304 



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