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low, spiny mimosas and " chaiiar " (Gourliaea decorticans). The fertile, populated districts of the province border on the Cordillera, particularly in the See also:

north where numerous streams from the See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad summits See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply See also:

WATER

water for See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation. The secondary ranges in this part of Mendoza are the Sierra de los Paramillos, which encloses the Uspallata Valley, and the Sierra del Tunuyan, which encloses a number of populous valleys drained by the Tunuyan See also:

RIVER

river and its tributaries. One of the largest of these is the Yuco Valley. Farther See also:

south the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country becomes more arid and sparsely populated, and unsubdued tribes of See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians for a long time prevented its exploration. In this region the Sierra de Payen and Sierra del Nevado (otherwise known as the Sierra Quero Matro Pellon) extend in a north-easterly direction. With the exception of the Rio Grande in the south-See also:

west part of the province, which forms the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal source of the See also:

COLORADO

Colorado, all the See also:

rivers of the province flow easterly and southerly into the great saline depression of western Argentina, which includes a great part of Mendoza, San Luis and La Pampa. The Andean streams rise in the higher snow-clad elevations, but their See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters become impregnated with saline See also:

MATTER

matter soon after reaching the plain, and are eventually lost in the saline marshes and lagoons of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern Mendoza and La Pampa. These Andean rivers are the Mendoza, Tunuyan, See also:

Diamante and Atuel, with their numerous tributaries, all of which See also:

DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge into the sluggish river which flows from the Huanacache lagoons, on the San Juan frontier, southward to the marshes and lagoons of La Pampa. The upper part. of this brackish, swampy stream is called the Desaguadero, nd the See also:

LOWER

lower the Salado. It forms the eastern boundary See also:

LINE

line of the province down to the 36th parallel.

With the exception of the elevated districts of the Andes, the See also:

CLIMATE

climate of Mendoza is hot and dry. On the plains the rainfall is insignificant, but on the slopes of the Cordillera rains are frequent and See also:

winter See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold is severe. See also:

Agriculture is the principal occupation where irrigation can be used, the province having a high reputation for its raisins and wines. See also:

ALFALFA

Alfalfa is an important product, being grown for fattening the 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 driven through the province to the Chilean markets. The See also:

MINERAL

mineral resources of the province are said to be See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good, but receive little See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention. See also:

PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

Petroleum is found in the vicinity of San Rafael, on the Diamante river, and it is claimed that See also:

COAL

coal exists in the same region. Although Mendoza was settled by See also:

SPANISH

Spanish colonists from Chile as far back as 1559, its development has been hindered by its isolated position. This See also:

ISOLATION

isolation was broken in 1884 by the completion of the See also:

ARGENTINE

Argentine Great Western railway to the provincial See also:

capital. Since then a railway has been built northward to San Juan, and another line was in 1908 under construction through the Andes to connect with the Chilean railway See also:

SYSTEM

system. In addition to Mendoza, the capital of the province, the principal towns (hardly more than villages) are Guaymallen, Maipit, San See also:

Martin, Lujan and San Rafael.

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