"Interest was heightened by the knowledge that the 162,000 acres of land already cultivated in the , where is located, were to triple through a great irrigation project inaugurated by . In 1930 it was well under way when the project was abandoned. An American engineer, Charles W. Sutton, long in the service of Peru, was adding to his fame and usefulness by undertaking to bring from the Huancabamba River, tributary to the Amazon, by means of a tunnel through the mountains, water to supplement the service of the coastal streams."
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Annie Smith Peck
(October 19, 1850 – July 18, 1935) was an American , adventurer, ., classical scholar, professor, lecturer, writer, and suffragist. In 1927 the renamed 's northern peak as Cumbre Aña Peck in her honor. She was one of only three women who reached the summit of the during the nineteenth century. (The first was and the second was .)
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