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1492.  In the coca region of the Yungas, Bolivia.  The fields on the hillsides are mainly coca plantations.  The fields are carefully terraced and planted to the shrub.  The seedlings are raised in beds and protected like tobacco, and later planted in the trenches in the terraced fields.

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1516.  Mules loaded with bundles of coca leaves, Ollantaitambo north of Cuzco.  The coca is coming up from the warmer regions to be used on the uplands.