Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 1751319059

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129553

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Place of publication:: Paris [u.a.]

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 1316 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs, commissaires, liquidateurs, curateurs, etc., de sociétés

Collection:: Economics Books

BOLIVIA 81 with little vegetation, but is extremely rich in mineral deposits. Running north and south, and at the east and west sides of this vast plateau are two ranges of the Andes, the distance between them being about 85 miles. In addition to these main ranges are many others which criss-cross the country in numerous directions. In but few, if any, countries of the world is there to be found such a wealth of scenery, Bolivia possessing three of the highest peaks in this hemisphere, namely Illampu, Sorata and Illi mani, the sentinel of La Paz, whose snow- covered peak towers into space 22,500 feet. As may be surmised the climate in the pla teau and mountain regions is cool and invigor ating most of the year, but extremely warm in the summer, while as the land descends toward Brazil and the upper Amazon region it be comes milder until it reaches tropic warmth. On account of the high altitude of Bolivia, the traveler generally has attacks of what is known locally as “puno” or “sirroche”—or in plain English, mountain sickness, owing to the

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