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Identifier: nouvellegograp17recl (find matches)
Title: Nouvelle géographie universelle : la terre et les hommes
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Paris : Hachette et cie.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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n oriental du Poas, le Barba, quiest aussi un volcan, mais apaisé, et dont le cratère est devenu lac, est unpeu plus élevé (2855 mètres), et plus loin se montre le géant des vol-cans costa-ricains, lIrazû. Pourtant cette montagne, qui sélève au nord de 1 Yalentini, Petermanns Mittheilungen, 1861, Heft IX. 2 H. Pittier, Informe sobre el actual estado dcl volcan Poâs, 189C 3 Frantzius, Petermanns Mittheilungen, 1861, Heft X. MONTAGNES, VOLCANS DU COSTA-RICA. :>7 Gartago, na pas, vue des plateaux, lapparence majestueuse qui convien-drait à une cime dominatrice doù lon aperçoit à la fois les deux océans ettoute létendue du Costa-Rica, de la montagne dOrosi à celle de Rôvalo. DeCartago, à peine la distingue-t-on des autres sommets, et la pente est sidouce quon peut la gravir à dos de mulet jusquau point culminant. Sesversants sont revêtus de cultures, maïs, tabac, pommes de terres et, plushaut, de pâturages; puis vient la ceinture terminale des forêts de chênes.
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U.\ DES TROIS CRATERES DU POÂS. Dessin dA. Slom, daprès une photographie de M. Pitticr, communiquée par la Société de Géographie neuchàteloise. LIrazû est probablement un peu moins élevé quon ne le croyait naguèredaprès les mesures de Gabb : il na pas 5500 mètres. Pittier a constatépour tous les étages de végétation sur le pourtour de la montagne deslimites inférieures à celles quadmettait le savant américain : la culture dumaïs est poussée sur les pentes jusquà 2255 mètres, les champs de pommesde terre montent jusquà 2700 mètres. Les dernières constructions, cellesdu hameau de Birris, lieu dhabitation le plus élevé de la République,sont à 2845 mètres; les derniers chênes se montrent à la cote 5171,et le plus haut des trois sommets atteint 5414 mètres. xvii. 68 558 NOUVELLE GÉOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE. Le sixième et dernier volcan du côté de lest, le Turialba (5525 mètres),na point laspect imposant dun pic de Teyde ou dun Cotopaxi : du plateauon ne l

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