The earth and its inhabitants (1894) (14579750890)

Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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^ a conflict of interest in thesemineral treasures, broke out between Chili and Peru ; Bolivia, unable to remainneutral, lost the stakes, and being the weakest of the three states, suffered most. In virtue of an indefinite truce, Chili seized all the coast provinces, andtook the place of Peru as the intermediary of Bolivian commerce. HenceforthBolivia has to forward her produce through the Chilian seaports of Iquique andAntofagasta. On the north-east the frontier towards Peru coincides fairly well with the
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BOUNDAEIES OP BOLIVIA. 355 ethnical parting-line between the Quichuas and the Aym iras, although here alsoPeru encroaches on her weaker neighbour, so as to appropriate Puno and otherAymara towns. The natural geographical limit indicated by the Yilcanota Knotbetween the Amazonian affluents and the Titicaca basin is deflected far to thesouth ; even the lake itself has been divided in an oblique direction in such away as to leave the larger section to Peru. At the southern extremity, also, the political boundary runs counter to thenatural divisions, although here Bolivia would appear to be favoured at theexpense of her Argentine neighbour. If the formal will of the inhabitants werenot the first consideration in these matters, the province of Tarija, at presentincluded in Bolivia, should be restored to Argentina, lying as it does to the southof the Pio Pilcomayo, in the upper Bermejo basin. By a royal decree Tarija hadbeen attached to Salta for civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and this