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to explode. By the end of the 1890s more than 100,000 people, mostly Brazilians, were
intheAcrebasinalone,generatingsome17milliondollarsinexportvaluethere,amod-
ern equivalent value of some half a billion dollars, an immense sum at the time.
Figure 8.1.
Llamas loaded with rubber for a trip over the Andes to Pacific ports.
In addition, this place, as Church described it, contained “unsurpassed auriferous
wealth.” Yellow (metal), red (Indian labor), and black (rubber) gold were all to be found
in the litigious zone. And if no way was found to move material through the waterways,
there was always future transport over the Andes with llamas.
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