SOUTH AMERICA'S THOUSANDS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 2.

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SOUTH AMERICA'S THOUSANDS.

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:—

NORTHERN FIELD.

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

EASTERN FIELD.

Name. Area, square miles. Population.
Brazil, 3,219,000 14,000,000

SOUTHERN FIELD.

Name. Area, square miles. Population.
Paraguay, 91,970 560,000
Uruguay, 72,110 648,299
Argentina, 1,125,086 4,086,492
Total, 1,289,166 5,294,791

WESTERN FIELD.

Name. Area, square miles. Population.
Chile, 293,970 3,115,815
Bolivia, 567,240 2,330,000
Ecuadór, 120,000 1,200,000
Peru, 500,000 2,971,844
Total, 1,481,210 9,617,659

SUMMARY.

Area, square miles. Population.
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.
F. H. WESTPHAL.