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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 360 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RIOJA, LA

RIOJA, LA , an Andine See also:

province of See also:

ARGENTINA

Argentina, bounded N. by See also:

Catamarca, E. by. Catamarca and See also:

Cordoba, S. by See also:

SAN

San Luis and San Juan and W. by San Juan and See also:

CHILE, or CHILI (derived, it is said, from the Quichua chin , cold, or tchili, snow)

Chile. See also:

AREA

Area, 34,546 sq. m. Pop. (1895) 69,502; (1902, estimate) 82,099. The province is traversed from N. to S. by eastern ranges of the See also:

ANDES

Andes and is separated from Chile by the See also:

CORDILLERA

Cordillera itself. The western See also:

PART

part of the province is drained by the Bermejo, which flows See also:

south-See also:

ward into the closed lacustrine See also:

basin of See also:

Mendoza. The eastern See also:

side of the province is arid, but in the extreme N. some small streams flow northward into Catamarca. The scanty See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of these streams are used for See also:

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

irrigation purposes. 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 province is that of See also:

MINING

mining, its See also:

MINERAL

mineral resources including See also:

gold, See also:

SILVER

silver, See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper, See also:

nickel, See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin, See also:

COBALT (symbol Co, atomic weight 59)

cobalt, See also:

COAL

coal, See also:

ALUM

alum and See also:

salt. Its best known mines are those of the Sierra de Famatina, 16,400 ft. above See also:

sea-level, where an aerial See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire See also:

LINE

line is used for transportation to Chilecito in the valley below. The development of mining See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries is seriously hindered by lack of See also:

WATER

For the same See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason, See also:

agriculture is in a very backward See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is hot and dry, and there is no cultivation of the See also:

SOIL

soil except in the valleys of the Cordillera and a few other places where irrigation is possible. Under these conditions; there are grown See also:

wheat (a limited extent), grapes, oranges, See also:

OLIVES, MOUNT OF, or MOUNT OLIVET ("Opus 'EXc uwos or riov 'EXauav; mod. Jebel-et-Tur)

olives and See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco. See also:

ALFALFA

Alfalfa is grown to a considerable extent and is used for feeding the herds of 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 across 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 to Chile. The See also:

capital of the province is La Rioja (pop., 1904, about 6000), on thee eastern flank of the Sierra de Velasco, about 1770 ft. above sea-level and near the See also:

GORGE

gorge of Sanagasta, through which a small stream, also called Rioja, flows northward and affords water for the gardens, vineyards and orchards that surround it. The wines of Rioja are highly esteemed and are an important source of income for the See also:

DISTRICT

district. The See also:

TOWN

town is connected' by See also:

RAIL

rail with Cordoba and Catamarca. It was founded In 1591 by Velasco and in 1894 was destroyed by an See also:

EARTHQUAKE

earthquake from which it has only partially recovered. The most important town in the province is the mining centre of Chilecito, or See also:

VILLA

Villa Argentina (pop., 1904, about 4000), about 2950 ft. above sea-level near the Famatina mines.

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