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STS079-785-016 Lake Poopo, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia September 1996 Numerous bright salars or salt flats are visible in this westerly view of the southwestern part of the Altiplano in Bolivia. Many volcanic cones (darker, roughly circular features) are visible, mainly along the western flanks of the two large salars, Uyuni (largest) and Coipasa. Lake Poopo, a light colored feature northeast of the two large salars, appears to be relatively devoid of standing water at the time this image was obtained. Some clouds partially obscure the southern end of intermittently water filled Lake Poopo. The Andes Mountains dramatically decrease in elevation in a relatively short horizontal distance along the western slopes of the mountains. Known as the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, this synoptic view shows a large section of one of the most arid regions on earth.
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STS109-E-5887 (9 March 2002) --- This view of a good portion of the country of Chile was recorded with a digital still camera by one of the STS-109 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Chile's Pacific Coast is featured and the country's borders with three other nations--Bolivia, Peru and Argentina--almost or just barely made it into the frame in three different directions. Punta Angamos and Punta Tetas are readily visible on the anvil shaped peninsular feature, near the city of Antofagasta.
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ISS011-E-06422 (19 May 2005) --- Rosario, Argentina is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 11 crewmember on the international space station. The Paran? River in the center of the view is the principal transportation artery of central South America, and consequently gave rise from the times of early colonization to the growth of river port cities such as Argentina?s second city, Rosario, now a major industrial center (population greater than 1.1 million; lower left). Rosario is the center of a vibrant local agricultural economy?intensive agriculture is visible on the left margin of the view. As such, Rosario is one of the key cities in South America?s MERCOSUR common market (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay). Other cities have expanded along the river bank especially northwards (for example, Capitan Bermudez, top left). Not only is the region around Rosario targeted for local economic development, but it is now a transportation hub. Rosario?s port facilities (center bottom), and facilities along the length of the Paran?-Paraguay river systems (the traditional north-south transport route), have been improved to give efficient river barge access to landlocked regions upstream?Paraguay, Bolivia and southwestern Brazil?connecting them to Buenos Aires, 300 kilometers to the south. East-west transport connections are becoming increasingly important for MERCOSUR trade with products from Argentina and southern Brazil moving by road and rail, via Rosario, to Pacific ports in Chile and then even to Asia. The great Rosario-Victoria bridge (center), completed in 2002, facilitates this east-west movement of goods. The bridge casts a shadow where it crosses almost two kilometers of open river. Viaducts and earth-filled sections continue the new highway to the city of Victoria to the east another 57 kilometers across the great swamplands of the Paran? floodplain?part of which is visible in the right half of the view. The bridge is one of very few road or rail connections between the east and west banks of South America?s second largest river. It allows the economic center of Argentina to communicate for the first time directly by road not only with Argentina?s remote northeastern provinces, but also with Uruguay and Brazil.
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[Stieler, Adolf, Petermann, A.]
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Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
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Engraved outline hand color map. Shows boundaries, cities and towns. Includes explanation and list of provinces. Prime meridian is Ferro. Relief shown by hachures.
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[Black, Adam, Black, Charles]
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[Stieler, Adolf, Haack, H.]
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[Stieler, Adolf, Habenicht, H., Salzmann, H., Petermann, A.]
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[Black, Adam, Black, Charles, Hall, Sydney]
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Institute of Social and Religious Research
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Tanner, Henry S.
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Date estimated. Prime meridian Greenwich.
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Tanner, Henry S.
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Date estimated. Prime meridian Greenwich.
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[Haack, H., Stieler, Adolf]
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Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr.
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Two hand colored maps on one page. Shows political divisions, settlements, rivers, etc. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington.
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Berghaus, Henry
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Privately published map of the coastal regions of Chile and Peru. Guantajaya silver mines and saltpeter mines supplied the exports for Iquique (Yquique). Relief shown in hachures.
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Vandermaelen, Philippe, 1795-1869
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Hand col. lithographed map. Relief shown pictorially. Covers parts of northern Chile, northern Argentina and southern Bolivia.
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Instituto Geographico di Agostini
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Relief shown as combined hachures, shaded relief, and hypsometric tints; bathymetry also tinted. Includes several maps and graphics of agriculture, population, industries, minerals, and livestock. Flags included.
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Polish Army Topography Service
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Detailed physical and political map.
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[Brue, Adrien Hubert, 1786-1832, Levasseur, E.]
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Relief shown by hachures. Railroads. Prime meridian Paris. Four scales.
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Rand McNally and Company
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Relief shown by hachures. States outlined in red. Inset at same scale as main map.
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