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Synopsis
Excerpt from Official Catalogue of the Peruvian Section: Main Building, International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876
The sierra or highland plains, hung between the two ranges, is the region of the potato and alpaca, corn, barley and mines of precious metals. It is a long plateau, 300 miles wide, walled in by stupendous peaks, many of them reaching far above the limit of perpetual snow.
The montana or forest region, skirting the Eastern slope of the Andes, is little known, but only requires an outlet to make it the. Rich est part of the Republic. The climate is always humid, and. Warmer than the same altitude on the Pacific slope.
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