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TMs peculiar forest continues for about 10 k/ra/ 1 
and then changes to the ordinary forest as found below 
La Capilla on road to Rio Lipeo. In sections where 
the original forest has been clearedthere is much 
growth of the tree resembling Black Birch",which 
ranges all the way up to Colombia at high altitudes 
^liere the pine-like trees are found there seems to be 
• a considerable outcrop of limestone,which disappears 
elsewhere and gives place to a soft red sandstone. 
Ar about K.M. 85 there is a large,rather v/ide valley, 
where there was a large base hospital during the 
^ war,a place called ¥arvaez. There are many gentle 
slopes on the mountain sides here,but all has been 
deforested long ago. BmDm ITarvaez the road climbs 
up again,crosses another divide and then a long drop 
do¥ 7 n into the valley to Entre Rios. This w^ole high¬ 
way is very well laid out and the grades are not excef 
ssive,the only drawback being its narrow width,not 
allowing cars''to pass except here and there. Haturallj 
there are many sharp curves and the dri'^ers are none 
to careful. Ho^vever very few accidents occur now,but 
during the war many trucks were wrecked and many men 
killed and v/ounded, A cross marks all these spots 
where anyone has been killed. . 
It is about 108 kilometers from Tarija to Intre 
Rios. 
Entre Rios. (4,600 feet) 
Sitiiated in a rather wide valley, just above the 
junction of the Rio Sta.Ana with the Rio Salinas, 
the tv/on being on the latter,which has a general dire¬ 
ction of north and south,with the Sta.Ana coming in 
from the west. The tov;n is small and compact, consist¬ 
ing of about ten or twelve squares only. It is com¬ 
paratively new,there having been but a nondescript 
indian hamley there before the highway was built. 
Bow all houses are tile roofed and adobe. There is th( 
usual plaza and church and cobble stone-paved,naruov/ 
streets. Two small hotels,one,the Tarija,with fair 
accomodations,but high prices. 
There is a considerable area of low level land 
along the river which is irrigated,while on either 
side,and up the Sta,Ana for several miles are exten¬ 
sive bench-lands,used mostly for grazing, the ?/hole 
area of bench lands being bare of trees. Small groves 
and lines of Acacias are found along the streams 
in which many species of birds are present. Back of 
the bench lands the mountains rise steeply foi' 
a couple of thousand feet or more and are for the 
greater portion covered with woodland,in places the 
lower slopes being cleared where not too steep. 
The prevailing soil over the whole region is red 
