and old cathedrals, Cordova is a small village hardly changed 
since its settlement 300 years ago. It is in the midst of a 
region of canyon table lands and deep tropical forests where 
all kinds of fruit and flowers grow and where the plantations 
of coffee and bananas are everywhere. But with all this the 
people are a primitive lot, mostly Indians and mixed bloods, who 
can never rise much above this present level.” 
