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climate of the lowlands is hot, humid and unhealthy, but that of the plateau is salubrious, though subject to greater extremes in temperature and rainfall. The seasons are sharply divided into wet and dry, the eastern plains becoming great lagoons during the wet See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, and parched deserts during the dry. The See also:

MINERAL

mineral resources are important, but are less See also:

DEVELOPED

developed than those of Potosi and See also:

ORURO

Oruro. Grazing is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of the plains, and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

sheep, goats and llamas are raised and cereals grown in the fertile valleys of the plateau. Three rough highways connect the department with its neighbours on the N. and W., and See also:

pack animals are the See also:

COMMON

common means of transporting merchandise. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was estimated at 204,434 in 1900, and is largely composed of See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and mestizos. The plateau Indians are generally Aymaras, but on the eastern plains there are considerable settlements of partly civilized Chiriguanos, of Guarani origin. The department is divided into four provinces, the greater part of the lowlands being unsettled and without effective See also:

POLITICAL

political organization.

Its principal towns are See also:

SUCRE, or CHUQUISACA

Sucre, See also:

CAMARGO, MARIE ANNE DE CUPIS DE (1710-1770)

Camargo, See also:

PADILLA, JUAN LOPEZ DE

Padilla and Yotala.

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