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spots along the foot of the Coast Range, where tiny streams or 

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Fig. 67 — Irrigated and irrigable land 

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Fig. 68 — The projected canal to con- 

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by uncertain springs that issue below the hollows of the bordering 

 mountains. 



In central and northern Peru the coastal region has aspects 

 quite different from those about Camana. At some places, for 

 example north of Cerro Azul, the main spurs of the Cordillera 

 extend down to the shore. There is neither a low Coast Range 

 nor a broad desert pampa. In such places flat land is found only 

 on the alluvial fans and deltas. Lima and Callao are typical. 

 Fig. 66, compiled from Adams 's reports on the water resources of 



a Figs. 67 and 68 are from Bol. de Minas del Perfi, 1906, No. 37, pp. 82 and 84 

 respectively. 



