SOUTH AMERICA'S THOUSANDS.
By F. H. Westphal
SOUTH AMERICA is an extensive missionary field, divided by the natural conformation of its surface, its mountains and rivers, into four general mission fields, as follows:— | Name. |
Area, square miles. |
Population. |
|---|
| Colombia, |
502,000 |
3,500,000 |
| Venezuela, |
594,165 |
2,550,385 |
| Guiana, |
168,962 |
367,443 |
| Total, |
1,265,127 |
6,417,828 |
| Brazil, | 3,219,000 | 14,000,000 | | Paraguay, | 91,970 | 560,000 |
| Uruguay, | 72,110 | 648,299 |
| Argentina, | 1,125,686 | 4,086,492 |
| Total, | 1,289,166 | 5,294,791 | | Chile, | 293,970 | 3,115,815 |
| Bolivia, | 567,240 | 2,330,000 |
| Ecuador, | 120,000 | 1,200,000 |
| Peru, | 500,000 | 2,971,844 |
| Total, | 1,481,210 | 9,617,659 | | Northern Field, | 1,265,127 | 6,417,828 |
| Eastern " | 3,219,000 | 14,000,000 |
| Southern " | 1,289,166 | 5,294,791 |
| Western " | 1,481,210 | 9,617,659 |
| Grand total, | 7,254,503 | 35,330,278 | Surely here is a large field, in which scarcely a beginning has yet been made.