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M. SERRANO's recent expedition, and the second expedition which was organized by the Chilian Government in order to determine the watershed between the east and west coast of South America, have settled the most interesting fact that the high chain of the Andes in these regions does not form the watershed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but that it lies somewhat further east of it, on a plain about 500 metres high. The rivers which rise here and flow towards the Pacific have their source in small lakes, and pass through the Cordilleras in narrow gorges very difficult to penetrate. The land from the eastern slope to the watershed which forms, according to Chilian reckoning, the boundary between Chili and the Argentine Republic, is pampa, and well adapted for cattle-breeding.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 36, 544–545 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036544b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036544b0