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In the U.S. wants to revive an old project that could transform the entire North America. NAWAPA called "North America Water and Power Aliance"
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And eye that South America and we were thinking about us, see if it all together long?
Connecting the South American Orinoco River Basin,
of the Amazon and the Plata.
Mr. Gabriel del Mazo
September 2006. Draft Resolution
The Chamber of Deputies
Gabriel del Mazo
Mr. President,
1 º-Regional Conference of the Countries of silver, held in Montevideo in early 1941, decided to recommend to the States represented to continue and coordinate, through technical committees mixed, existing studies on the possible connection of the three major river systems of South America: La Plata, the Amazon and Orinoco. The resolution was proposed by the delegation of Argentina, taking into account the extraordinary importance of the Plata river system and also considering the development of the continent is to require pairing of this system to the other two basins. This is a great new way to enable the transit of people and goods, multiplying the human ties and opening the prospect of new centers of consumption and raw material processing. The idea takes into account the enormous wealth and continental still the undisputed importance of the South American network of natural channels. The chairman of the delegation of Argentina at this conference meant the benefits of communication and the civilizing of our great river, the protagonist of geographical and historical links between Asuncion, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, some of whose tributaries flow down from the mountain region Bolivia and others even further away from us into contact with the heart land of Brazil. Thus, the president of the Brazilian delegation meant, elaborating on reasons for economic solidarity of these countries should not be in the theoretical doctrines, of which corresponded to address accomplishments as recommended by the conference, which not only recognized the existence economic systems such as the Plata and Amazon, but sought to provide solutions to deepen the doctrines platenses solidarity. (Foreign Report, Volume I, 1941, and Countries Regional Conference del Plata, Final Act. 27/Febrero January 6, 1941. Montevideo, printing Florensa.)
The III Argentine Congress of Engineering, held in Cordoba from 4 to July 16, 1942 recommended, on the other hand, compliance with the aforementioned resolution, establishing its importance to commercial and industrial future of South America . ("Engineering", organ of the Argentine Center of Engineers, July 1942).
In a similar concept, the V South American Union of Engineering Associations (USAI), meeting in Montevideo from 9 to 16 March 1947, set (item D) to improve the Navigation is an essential factor for development the economy of these countries and for the enhancement of spiritual connection, recommending that the executive committees of the associations gathered promoted in their respective countries, the creation of joint technical committees to study such problems. The convention stressed these individuals when discussing E, stating that the greatest spiritual and economic connection of South American nations, requires the fullest development of media of all kinds: road, rail, river, air, adding: " major river systems in South America are extremely important, such as: the Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná, Paraguay, Uruguay, Lake Titicaca, which cross or demarcate several countries, are valuable communication arteries. South American countries are striving to contribute to the development of fraternal international communication channels, offering beautiful examples of cooperation: Brazil and Argentina to the international bridge Uruguayana, Argentina and Chile with the Trans-Andean Railroad and international road, Paraguay and Argentina with Paraguay river rafts, compared to port Pilcomayo, Argentina and Uruguay to the future dam of Salto Grande, and Bolivia and Argentina with the railway to La Paz, studies and construction of rail and studies Villamontes the way to Bolivia. The Pan American Highway and connects to several countries and Uruguay and Brazil have decided to build together the international bridge over the river and the road Cuareim Bage. "(Act V of the Convention. Montevideo, 1947. Talleres Castro.)
2 - From the works of William Chandless (Notes, Rio de Janeiro, 1868, and Resumo do itinerary gives Descida do Tapajoz in Outubro, 1854), geographers and explorers examined the possibility of union waterway between the Amazon and La Plata for their respective tributaries, the Tapajoz and Paraguay, as well as from the work around 1800 in Humboldt, who studied the Orinoco Bonpland and later Michelena y Rojas , Schomburg in the discovery of the bridges and Chaffaujón the accuracy of the route of this great river view or expectation was the possibility of unifying waterway between the Orinoco and Amazon.
Although by virtue of these studies and the later is involved the prospect of a visible communication between the three major continental basins, no, you know, the noted and recommendations made until 1909, when a Uruguayan geographer, published a book , referring to what he calls "the future great trade route in South America" \u200b\u200b(Cincinnatus Luis Bollo, South America, past and present. New York, 1919). This book points out the desirability to join the River Plate to the Panama Canal, through the channel of the Parana, Paraguay, Tapajoz, the Amazon, the Orinoco River and Black. The last part of the route would be saved by arranging the navigability of the Meta Guaiare or a railway to pass through Bogota. The author calculated the distance by establishing that the communication would be important to all lower than projected by the British to the interior of Africa to join the Cape through the Congo and then the Nile, Cairo.
At that time was not considered, as happened in recent years, the possibility of a canal through the territory of Colombia, an issue in the days that are strongly updates. ("The Nation" July 31, 1948). In 1939 the problem of this communication to the south of the Panama Canal, building the mighty Colombian Atrato River, was the subject of this National Congress Republic. The Atrato check the water in the Gulf of Urabá over the Atlantic and may be linked to several major rivers that empty into the Pacific. A tradition of explorers and geographers from Humboldt and Codazzi to inmates, including engineers and Traulwine, devised , studied and projected solutions to the inter-oceanic pipeline. They thought of a channel, developed in its entirety within the large triangle continental southern hemisphere, would be also strategically defensible as they are not that of Tehuantepec, Nicaragua or Panama thereof. (Roberto Luis Restrepo.Consideraciones on a canal on Colombian territory, Bogotá, 1939).
This defensive standpoint, as a utility that attends to the other advantages is similar to that which took account of Russia, whose maritime trade is constrained to go long distances and pass through ports that do not belong to Russia. In this vast country, continent, also become important channels dug into the bed of its great rivers, one of whose networks can join the North Sea and South, ie the two European waterfronts. During the last war, this system could be used sparingly because it was not full at the time of blast, with the exception of the Baltic Canal White Sea. But other than that communication with the Arctic and were projected using the Volga or Leningrad Kuma to join the Caspian and Black with Caspian and the Volga-Don, Russia continued its plan of large central canal, crossing its territory has to unite the Baltic to the Black Sea via the Dnieper and the Dvina, the work of similar category for its deployment bold, to the great South American channel to which we refer.
3 º Not just for the Tapajoz but Madeira is viable for the communication of the Amazon and La Plata, through the Paraguay and Parana.
Just two or three miles east of the Upper Paraguay River Basin supply source of the river Black (Preto) western tributary Arinos (Tapajoz). Eight leagues of the river far Cuyabá and only twelve miles between navigable points and Arinos Preto (the sources of both far only nine). In this area, therefore, where beat and flow the sources of the Amazon and Plata. In losApontamentos or Geographical Dictionary of Brazil, Alfredo Pinto Moreira (Rio de Janeiro, National Press, 1889, Volume III) contains a reference to an account of the owner of a plantation of Estiva (Estiva River, a tributary of Arinos), who states that eventually joined the Amazon and Plata, because "it was proposed to water your garden" and dug a channel between two of its tributaries originate.
But as we said, there is also the east side of the bond mentioned, another possible link to the two extraordinary river systems along the river Madeira, both with regard to this waterway treaties governing trade, exporting and importing between Bolivia and Brazil. Communication is established by the rivers Mamore and Beni Guaporé, and the junction with the Paraguay River would end by Alegre, Aguapey and Jaurú. Sea
either chosen path, that of Tapajoz or the Madeira, are so favorable general conditions of navigability of the rivers without diminishing the integrative approach works, it would suffice to save with side pipes and sliding areas dig into the ground short channels in the final links to the Plata and Amazon remain linked by a path to the fullest extent practicable and appropriate vessels draft. The aforementioned
Argentine Congress of Engineering were presented approximate longitudinal profiles of the two path. The first passes through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, following the rivers Tapajoz, Juruena, Diamond, Paraguay, Parana, Silver, with about 7000 miles. The second would pass through Brazil, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (¿??),, following the Amazon, Madeira, Mamore, Guaporé, Alegre, Aguapey, Jaurú, Paraguay, Parana, Plata, with around 8500 km ( Ernesto Baldasarri engineer, linking the Amazon and Plata, a magazine "Engineering", organ of the Argentine Center of Engineers, May 1942, pages 285-293.) The author states: "address this problem by an aspiration condensed in study or publication has been made on the matter. In all point to its great importance for the continent's future. Indisputable need for an economic link to arbitrate and improve living and working conditions in those regions of South America. "
4 - At the same time, northern South America highlighted Chaffaujon work, and quoted, hydraulic communication between the Orinoco and Amazon through the Casiquiare. Don Alfredo Jahn, famous geographer in Venezuela submitted to the Geographical Society of Bolivia for his remarkable memory: Contributions to the hydrography of the Orinoco River and Black (Caracas, 1909). Recently in the Journal of Engineering Center of Venezuela, Pedro Ezequiel Rojas published a report on river navigation between Venezuela y Brasil, Caracas 1941, trabajo presentado al I Congreso Venezolano de Ingeniería. La vía de unión escogida por este proyecto es la siguiente: Orinoco, río Guairúa, río Negro, río Amazonas. La verdadera llave de la comunicación esta en el Casiquiare, canal natural que comunica el Orinoco con el Negro. Esta comunicación se hace por dos vías: una formada por los Mé e Iconorochito y otra por los Pacimoni, Baria, “canal” Matiraca y río Canabury. Por la segunda de estas rutas pueden también pasar embarcaciones, aunque de menor porte. Con todo, según aquella memoria, habría una mejor solución, consistente en construir un canal de sólo veinticinco kilómetros ligand field will cut the two main currents. The author is primarily concerned with the advocacy role of production and trade of this work to be constructed through an enormous wealth of agricultural and mineral producers for easy placement in large industrial countries, with corresponding benefits of equalization payments . The particular geographical
the great basin of the Orinoco and Black, can be studied in the classic Geography of Venezuela, the disciple of Humboldt, Agustín Codazzi (description of Venezuela in 1841), whose work is now reprinting, in three volumes, the Ministry of Education (Caracas, 1940). The Orinoco system, reminiscent of the silver in their economic and political role. Thus the territorial unity between Colombia and Venezuela is divided by tributaries of that great river father. Almost the entire life of the Colombian plains, yet largely unexplored, is dumped by Guariare and the Meta and Orinoco Rivers and these soon reached the Atlantic, through Venezuelan territory through these dilated and rich counties. Living conditions in those countries and the interests that flow from it, respond increasingly unifying influence of the Orinoco to operate under the constant attraction of the mouths of the delta. (Carlos Badia Balagrida, The geographical factor in South American politics, Madrid, 1946). Venezuelan writer Dr. Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, on the occasion of the centenary of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar, located near the sea mouth of the great river), expressed this bold thinking on Venezuela's national formation "because our civilization has not developed around valley of Caracas, but the banks of the Orinoco. "
5 - It is clear that the approach to the issue of the Grand Canal simultaneously involve the problem of interconnection, through the corresponding internal ports with railways and roadside continental system and tributaries with natural or artificial channels, the latter has traditionally been identified but not met (see the studies of the engineer Luis A. Huerta, at the beginning of the century). From every point of view, the international technical organization in place for the continuation of the inter-American roads and railways, is the most valuable lesson to be consulted in all South American venture inland channel whose axis would be devised. The proceedings of III and IV International Road Congress, held in Santiago de Chile (1939) and Mexico (1941), respectively, and those belonging to the railway conference of that nature, particularly the V, held in Montevideo (1946), are large outlines of the issues raised, largely unresolved, issues that have all have important similarities to those that correspond to the topic at hand. In those events fit the delegations of Argentine engineers, brilliant and effective contributions. 6 º-
The map of "physiographic provinces" South American, Jones (Cl. F. Jones, Economical Geography: Agricultural regions of South America, Worcester, 1928), can be seen how the proposed canal, especially the taking the path of the river Madeira, skirt the huge South American central plains, from the plains of the Orinoco to the plains Argentine Pampas through Amazon depression mapora plains and the Gran Chaco. Consequently would set an artery multi-link with the eastern Brazilian highlands to the east, the highlands of Guiana in the north and the system of the Andes from Peru and Bolivia to the mountains of Merida in Venezuela without the link of the Paraguay, Parana and Uruguay, for the Republics of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
This vast and rich landscape contains within it an embryo to a civilizing process of centuries. You can be the scene of a revolutionary transformation of human life and power native of southern America, achieved by the prolific methods of solidarity.
So the technical committees of statesmen who are appointed by the countries of the South American tour of the Grand Canal, would have as its core mission, not just the lifting of a full letter of the river basins and areas connectable, with paths and plans for additional work on the long road of water, but also the study of natural resources and human values. So economic plans would bring commercial and industrial programs splicing correlates with railways and highways, and settlement, health and culturalization. In addition, cost estimates and methods of delivery, with the many related problems, legal, political, financial and scientific.
I believe that in a few years of serious and intensive work, the committees are well equipped, can reach an enlightened and planning firm, to the world model of a fruitful peace purpose. We must articulate the continental geography to the life of our countries, as a consistent unit, objectified both physical progress as in the consciousness of the brotherhood that their peoples are natural and historically.
Gabriel del Mazo.
INTRODUCTORA.-A Bibliography. von Humboldt: Travel to the equatorial regions of the New World. (There is a recent redición Ministry of Education of Venezuela); Marbut and Manifold: Topography of the Amazon, in Geographical Revive, New York, 1853. Directorate of Press and Propaganda: Riches of the Amazon, Lima, 1944, P. Le Cointe L'Amazonia Brasilienne (Le pays, ses habitants, ses resources), Paris, 1922, 2 volumes; United Status Department of biting: Rubber production in the Amazon ValleyWashington, 1925; AG Ogilvie, Geography of the central Andes, American Geographical Society, New York, 1922; Seimour E. Harris: Economic Problems of Latin America. (Harvard University), Mexico 1945, American Geographical Society: Map of Hispanic American (millionth), New York, 1931; Alcides D'Orbignys: Description of Bolivia, Paris, 1845, and Fragments from a trip to South America, Buenos Aires, Gabriel René Moreno. Library collection Bolivian Moxos and Chiquitos, Santiago de Chile, Manuel Vicente Ballivián; Moxos provinces and Chiquitos, La Paz, 1903, and project communication Chiquitos the river Paraguay. La Paz, 1902, Jose Aguirre Acha: From the Andes to the Amazon, La Paz, 1927, Charles Wiener, Perou et Bolivia, Berlin 1886, Chaves Medrado: El Dorado Bolivia, La Paz, 1931; Daniel Campos: From Tarija to Asuncion Buenos Aires (Circa 1892): Edwin R. Herat (on the tree, Mamore and Madre de Dios), Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 14, 1882, Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa, Compendium and Description of the West Indies, Malaga, 1624 (latest edition: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1948).
- To the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Worship
The Chamber of Deputies
RESOLVED:
Address to the Executive Branch would welcome expressing the Foreign Ministry agreed with the countries concerned, construction and operation of mixed committees to study possible connections of the great river the Plata, the Amazon and Orinoco, through a great channel to take advantage of navigable rivers belonging to such systems.
Gabriel del Mazo
Mr. President,
1 º-Regional Conference of the Countries of silver, held in Montevideo in early 1941, decided to recommend to the States represented to continue and coordinate, through technical committees mixed, existing studies on the possible connection of the three major river systems of South America: La Plata, the Amazon and Orinoco. The resolution was proposed by the delegation of Argentina, taking into account the extraordinary importance of the Plata river system and also considering the development of the continent is to require pairing of this system to the other two basins. This is a great new way to enable the transit of people and goods, multiplying the human ties and opening the prospect of new centers of consumption and raw material processing. The idea takes into account the enormous wealth and continental still the undisputed importance of the South American network of natural channels. The chairman of the delegation of Argentina at this conference meant the benefits of communication and the civilizing of our great river, the protagonist of geographical and historical links between Asuncion, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, some of whose tributaries flow down from the mountain region Bolivia and others even further away from us into contact with the heart land of Brazil. Thus, the president of the Brazilian delegation meant, elaborating on reasons for economic solidarity of these countries should not be in the theoretical doctrines, of which corresponded to address accomplishments as recommended by the conference, which not only recognized the existence economic systems such as the Plata and Amazon, but sought to provide solutions to deepen the doctrines platenses solidarity. (Foreign Report, Volume I, 1941, and Countries Regional Conference del Plata, Final Act. 27/Febrero January 6, 1941. Montevideo, printing Florensa.)
The III Argentine Congress of Engineering, held in Cordoba from 4 to July 16, 1942 recommended, on the other hand, compliance with the aforementioned resolution, establishing its importance to commercial and industrial future of South America . ("Engineering", organ of the Argentine Center of Engineers, July 1942).
2 - From the works of William Chandless (Notes, Rio de Janeiro, 1868, and Resumo do itinerary gives Descida do Tapajoz in Outubro, 1854), geographers and explorers examined the possibility of union waterway between the Amazon and La Plata for their respective tributaries, the Tapajoz and Paraguay, as well as from the work around 1800 in Humboldt, who studied the Orinoco Bonpland and later Michelena y Rojas , Schomburg in the discovery of the bridges and Chaffaujón the accuracy of the route of this great river view or expectation was the possibility of unifying waterway between the Orinoco and Amazon.
Although by virtue of these studies and the later is involved the prospect of a visible communication between the three major continental basins, no, you know, the noted and recommendations made until 1909, when a Uruguayan geographer, published a book , referring to what he calls "the future great trade route in South America" \u200b\u200b(Cincinnatus Luis Bollo, South America, past and present. New York, 1919). This book points out the desirability to join the River Plate to the Panama Canal, through the channel of the Parana, Paraguay, Tapajoz, the Amazon, the Orinoco River and Black. The last part of the route would be saved by arranging the navigability of the Meta Guaiare or a railway to pass through Bogota. The author calculated the distance by establishing that the communication would be important to all lower than projected by the British to the interior of Africa to join the Cape through the Congo and then the Nile, Cairo.
At that time was not considered, as happened in recent years, the possibility of a canal through the territory of Colombia, an issue in the days that are strongly updates. ("The Nation" July 31, 1948). In 1939 the problem of this communication to the south of the Panama Canal, building the mighty Colombian Atrato River, was the subject of this National Congress Republic. The Atrato check the water in the Gulf of Urabá over the Atlantic and may be linked to several major rivers that empty into the Pacific. A tradition of explorers and geographers from Humboldt and Codazzi to inmates, including engineers and Traulwine, devised , studied and projected solutions to the inter-oceanic pipeline. They thought of a channel, developed in its entirety within the large triangle continental southern hemisphere, would be also strategically defensible as they are not that of Tehuantepec, Nicaragua or Panama thereof. (Roberto Luis Restrepo.Consideraciones on a canal on Colombian territory, Bogotá, 1939).
This defensive standpoint, as a utility that attends to the other advantages is similar to that which took account of Russia, whose maritime trade is constrained to go long distances and pass through ports that do not belong to Russia. In this vast country, continent, also become important channels dug into the bed of its great rivers, one of whose networks can join the North Sea and South, ie the two European waterfronts. During the last war, this system could be used sparingly because it was not full at the time of blast, with the exception of the Baltic Canal White Sea. But other than that communication with the Arctic and were projected using the Volga or Leningrad Kuma to join the Caspian and Black with Caspian and the Volga-Don, Russia continued its plan of large central canal, crossing its territory has to unite the Baltic to the Black Sea via the Dnieper and the Dvina, the work of similar category for its deployment bold, to the great South American channel to which we refer.
3 º Not just for the Tapajoz but Madeira is viable for the communication of the Amazon and La Plata, through the Paraguay and Parana.
Just two or three miles east of the Upper Paraguay River Basin supply source of the river Black (Preto) western tributary Arinos (Tapajoz). Eight leagues of the river far Cuyabá and only twelve miles between navigable points and Arinos Preto (the sources of both far only nine). In this area, therefore, where beat and flow the sources of the Amazon and Plata. In losApontamentos or Geographical Dictionary of Brazil, Alfredo Pinto Moreira (Rio de Janeiro, National Press, 1889, Volume III) contains a reference to an account of the owner of a plantation of Estiva (Estiva River, a tributary of Arinos), who states that eventually joined the Amazon and Plata, because "it was proposed to water your garden" and dug a channel between two of its tributaries originate.
But as we said, there is also the east side of the bond mentioned, another possible link to the two extraordinary river systems along the river Madeira, both with regard to this waterway treaties governing trade, exporting and importing between Bolivia and Brazil. Communication is established by the rivers Mamore and Beni Guaporé, and the junction with the Paraguay River would end by Alegre, Aguapey and Jaurú. Sea
either chosen path, that of Tapajoz or the Madeira, are so favorable general conditions of navigability of the rivers without diminishing the integrative approach works, it would suffice to save with side pipes and sliding areas dig into the ground short channels in the final links to the Plata and Amazon remain linked by a path to the fullest extent practicable and appropriate vessels draft. The aforementioned
Argentine Congress of Engineering were presented approximate longitudinal profiles of the two path. The first passes through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, following the rivers Tapajoz, Juruena, Diamond, Paraguay, Parana, Silver, with about 7000 miles. The second would pass through Brazil, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (¿??),, following the Amazon, Madeira, Mamore, Guaporé, Alegre, Aguapey, Jaurú, Paraguay, Parana, Plata, with around 8500 km ( Ernesto Baldasarri engineer, linking the Amazon and Plata, a magazine "Engineering", organ of the Argentine Center of Engineers, May 1942, pages 285-293.) The author states: "address this problem by an aspiration condensed in study or publication has been made on the matter. In all point to its great importance for the continent's future. Indisputable need for an economic link to arbitrate and improve living and working conditions in those regions of South America. "
4 - At the same time, northern South America highlighted Chaffaujon work, and quoted, hydraulic communication between the Orinoco and Amazon through the Casiquiare. Don Alfredo Jahn, famous geographer in Venezuela submitted to the Geographical Society of Bolivia for his remarkable memory: Contributions to the hydrography of the Orinoco River and Black (Caracas, 1909). Recently in the Journal of Engineering Center of Venezuela, Pedro Ezequiel Rojas published a report on river navigation between Venezuela y Brasil, Caracas 1941, trabajo presentado al I Congreso Venezolano de Ingeniería. La vía de unión escogida por este proyecto es la siguiente: Orinoco, río Guairúa, río Negro, río Amazonas. La verdadera llave de la comunicación esta en el Casiquiare, canal natural que comunica el Orinoco con el Negro. Esta comunicación se hace por dos vías: una formada por los Mé e Iconorochito y otra por los Pacimoni, Baria, “canal” Matiraca y río Canabury. Por la segunda de estas rutas pueden también pasar embarcaciones, aunque de menor porte. Con todo, según aquella memoria, habría una mejor solución, consistente en construir un canal de sólo veinticinco kilómetros ligand field will cut the two main currents. The author is primarily concerned with the advocacy role of production and trade of this work to be constructed through an enormous wealth of agricultural and mineral producers for easy placement in large industrial countries, with corresponding benefits of equalization payments . The particular geographical
the great basin of the Orinoco and Black, can be studied in the classic Geography of Venezuela, the disciple of Humboldt, Agustín Codazzi (description of Venezuela in 1841), whose work is now reprinting, in three volumes, the Ministry of Education (Caracas, 1940). The Orinoco system, reminiscent of the silver in their economic and political role. Thus the territorial unity between Colombia and Venezuela is divided by tributaries of that great river father. Almost the entire life of the Colombian plains, yet largely unexplored, is dumped by Guariare and the Meta and Orinoco Rivers and these soon reached the Atlantic, through Venezuelan territory through these dilated and rich counties. Living conditions in those countries and the interests that flow from it, respond increasingly unifying influence of the Orinoco to operate under the constant attraction of the mouths of the delta. (Carlos Badia Balagrida, The geographical factor in South American politics, Madrid, 1946). Venezuelan writer Dr. Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, on the occasion of the centenary of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar, located near the sea mouth of the great river), expressed this bold thinking on Venezuela's national formation "because our civilization has not developed around valley of Caracas, but the banks of the Orinoco. "
5 - It is clear that the approach to the issue of the Grand Canal simultaneously involve the problem of interconnection, through the corresponding internal ports with railways and roadside continental system and tributaries with natural or artificial channels, the latter has traditionally been identified but not met (see the studies of the engineer Luis A. Huerta, at the beginning of the century). From every point of view, the international technical organization in place for the continuation of the inter-American roads and railways, is the most valuable lesson to be consulted in all South American venture inland channel whose axis would be devised. The proceedings of III and IV International Road Congress, held in Santiago de Chile (1939) and Mexico (1941), respectively, and those belonging to the railway conference of that nature, particularly the V, held in Montevideo (1946), are large outlines of the issues raised, largely unresolved, issues that have all have important similarities to those that correspond to the topic at hand. In those events fit the delegations of Argentine engineers, brilliant and effective contributions. 6 º-
The map of "physiographic provinces" South American, Jones (Cl. F. Jones, Economical Geography: Agricultural regions of South America, Worcester, 1928), can be seen how the proposed canal, especially the taking the path of the river Madeira, skirt the huge South American central plains, from the plains of the Orinoco to the plains Argentine Pampas through Amazon depression mapora plains and the Gran Chaco. Consequently would set an artery multi-link with the eastern Brazilian highlands to the east, the highlands of Guiana in the north and the system of the Andes from Peru and Bolivia to the mountains of Merida in Venezuela without the link of the Paraguay, Parana and Uruguay, for the Republics of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
This vast and rich landscape contains within it an embryo to a civilizing process of centuries. You can be the scene of a revolutionary transformation of human life and power native of southern America, achieved by the prolific methods of solidarity.
So the technical committees of statesmen who are appointed by the countries of the South American tour of the Grand Canal, would have as its core mission, not just the lifting of a full letter of the river basins and areas connectable, with paths and plans for additional work on the long road of water, but also the study of natural resources and human values. So economic plans would bring commercial and industrial programs splicing correlates with railways and highways, and settlement, health and culturalization. In addition, cost estimates and methods of delivery, with the many related problems, legal, political, financial and scientific.
I believe that in a few years of serious and intensive work, the committees are well equipped, can reach an enlightened and planning firm, to the world model of a fruitful peace purpose. We must articulate the continental geography to the life of our countries, as a consistent unit, objectified both physical progress as in the consciousness of the brotherhood that their peoples are natural and historically.
Gabriel del Mazo.
INTRODUCTORA.-A Bibliography. von Humboldt: Travel to the equatorial regions of the New World. (There is a recent redición Ministry of Education of Venezuela); Marbut and Manifold: Topography of the Amazon, in Geographical Revive, New York, 1853. Directorate of Press and Propaganda: Riches of the Amazon, Lima, 1944, P. Le Cointe L'Amazonia Brasilienne (Le pays, ses habitants, ses resources), Paris, 1922, 2 volumes; United Status Department of biting: Rubber production in the Amazon ValleyWashington, 1925; AG Ogilvie, Geography of the central Andes, American Geographical Society, New York, 1922; Seimour E. Harris: Economic Problems of Latin America. (Harvard University), Mexico 1945, American Geographical Society: Map of Hispanic American (millionth), New York, 1931; Alcides D'Orbignys: Description of Bolivia, Paris, 1845, and Fragments from a trip to South America, Buenos Aires, Gabriel René Moreno. Library collection Bolivian Moxos and Chiquitos, Santiago de Chile, Manuel Vicente Ballivián; Moxos provinces and Chiquitos, La Paz, 1903, and project communication Chiquitos the river Paraguay. La Paz, 1902, Jose Aguirre Acha: From the Andes to the Amazon, La Paz, 1927, Charles Wiener, Perou et Bolivia, Berlin 1886, Chaves Medrado: El Dorado Bolivia, La Paz, 1931; Daniel Campos: From Tarija to Asuncion Buenos Aires (Circa 1892): Edwin R. Herat (on the tree, Mamore and Madre de Dios), Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 14, 1882, Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa, Compendium and Description of the West Indies, Malaga, 1624 (latest edition: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1948).
- To the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Worship
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