The Andes of Southern Peru, Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy-Third Meridian
The Andes of Southern Peru, Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy-Third Meridian
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70 — ^A stream of the perennial type in the coastal desert of Peru. Depth of water in the Chira River at Sullana, 1905. Data from May to September are ap- proximate. (Bol. de Minas del Perfl, 1906, No. 45, p. 2.) i ports, and land in a high state of cultivation. But they are after all only a few hundred square miles in extent. They contain less than a quarter of the people. The whole Pacific slope from the crest of the Cordillera has about 15,000 square miles (38,850 sq.
km.), and of this only ...three per cent is irrigated valley land, as shown in Fig. 66. Moreover, only a small additional amount may be irrigated, perhaps one half of one per cent. Even this amount Digitized by Google 120 THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU may be added not only by a better use of the water but also by the diversion of streams and lakes from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Figs. 67 and 68 represent such a project, in which it is proposed to carry the water of Lake Choclococha through a canal and tunnel under the continental divide and so to the head of the lea Valley.
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70 — ^A stream of the perennial type in the coastal desert of Peru. Depth of water in the Chira River at Sullana, 1905. Data from May to September are ap- proximate. (Bol. de Minas del Perfl, 1906, No. 45, p. 2.) i ports, and land in a high state of cultivation. But they are after all only a few hundred square miles in extent. They contain less than a quarter of the people. The whole Pacific slope from the crest of the Cordillera has about 15,000 square miles (38,850 sq.
km.), and of this only ...three per cent is irrigated valley land, as shown in Fig. 66. Moreover, only a small additional amount may be irrigated, perhaps one half of one per cent. Even this amount Digitized by Google 120 THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU may be added not only by a better use of the water but also by the diversion of streams and lakes from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Figs. 67 and 68 represent such a project, in which it is proposed to carry the water of Lake Choclococha through a canal and tunnel under the continental divide and so to the head of the lea Valley.
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