Note 109 — ORIGINALIDAD Y CARACTERES ARGENTINOS El Rastreador—El Baquiano—El Gaucho Malo—El Cantor Domingo F. Sarmiento

lago o arroyo de agua salada o dulce. Salt streams and lakes are common in Argentina, particularly in the central provinces. “One day I rode to a large salt lake, or salina, which is distant fifteen miles from the town. During the winter it consists of a shallow lake of brine, which in summer is converted into a field of snow-white salt.... One of these brilliantly white and level expanses, in the midst of the brown and desolate plain, offers an extraordinary spectacle.”—Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle.