Detter Jmovm, rising to an altitude of more than 20000 feet* 
On the eastern side of the Oordillem the terrain slopes to the 
Amazon valley* The eastern part of Ecuador lying in the margin of tMs 
great valley is called the Oriente. it is covered with dense rain forest and 
is only partly explored. ThB wooded slopes of the eastern Andes are knom 
as montank* 
Agriculture of j:iCuaaor* 
coffee 
The chief products of the coastal plain are cacao, sugar, ^ rice, and 
"bananas; in tne elevated valleys, corn, beans, alfalfa, cotton, wheat 
and barley,. In tne uplands there are many ranches. Trie paramos or elevated 
plains am. hills above tree line are well supplied with nutritious i?rasses and 
will support a large number of cattle. At present the number is far below 
thu ultiHiate li;ait. Cattle anu, shsep can range over these paramos throughout 
tne year up to the snow line which is usually from 15000 to 16000 feet. The 
?/ater supply,^is sufficiently abundant. 
A large ranch was visited in northern Ecuador, ©lis ranch, owned by or. 
Don Yirgilio Tamayo, is called Hacienda La ninconada. It lies a\ an altitude 
of 9000 tO' 10000 feet and comprises several sqixare miles of land extending 
to the Oolombian border. 
It supports E500 head of cattle but would support nruch more stock. ThQ 
stock gra^e on tne native grasses. For the use of horses and milk cows the 
owner raises tame grass and alfalfa. Tne latter' is cut every four months. 
The chief crops are potatoes and barley. 
Three large plantations were visited by me on the coastal plain. The 
first was a sugar plantation at Milagro; the second a plantation managed 
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