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1500.  A coca plantation in the Yungas, Bolivia.  The slopes are carefully terraced and planted to the coca shrub.  Coca-raising is the chief industry in this region which lies north of La Paz on the Amazon slope of the Cordillera (or Andes).

[[handwritten vertically next to photo 1500]] The coca plants are in the little ditches not the trees here and there on the slope

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1438.  A small irrigated valley among arid hills along the railroad above Arequipa.  The crops are habas (broad bean), alfalfa and barley.  Altitude about 10000 feet.