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  • When treating "pacos," or earthy chlorides of silver, assaying only 20 oz. to 30 oz. of silver to the ton, 36 lb. of mercury is added to 2½ tons of ore at three different stages of the process as just described.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various

  • A great variety of excellent fish were taken -- _ "pacos," "surubis,"

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866

  • It is not coincidence that as a line of police came down on people outside the RNC, in parts of Chile fires burned in the middle of the streets as the election of its first socialist president, Salvador Allende, was remembered and police in Chile, "pacos" to our

    VivirLatino 2008

  • It is not coincidence that as a line of police came down on people outside the RNC, in parts of Chile fires burned in the middle of the streets as the election of its first socialist president, Salvador Allende, was remembered and police in Chile, "pacos" to our

    VivirLatino 2008

  • It is not coincidence that as a line of police came down on people outside the RNC, in parts of Chile fires burned in the middle of the streets as the election of its first socialist president, Salvador Allende, was remembered and police in Chile, "pacos" to our

    VivirLatino 2008

  • It is not coincidence that as a line of police came down on people outside the RNC, in parts of Chile fires burned in the middle of the streets as the election of its first socialist president, Salvador Allende, was remembered and police in Chile, "pacos" to our

    VivirLatino 2008

  • It is not coincidence that as a line of police came down on people outside the RNC, in parts of Chile fires burned in the middle of the streets as the election of its first socialist president, Salvador Allende, was remembered and police in Chile, "pacos" to our

    VivirLatino 2008

  • It is not coincidence that as a line of police came down on people outside the RNC, in parts of Chile fires burned in the middle of the streets as the election of its first socialist president, Salvador Allende, was remembered and police in Chile, "pacos" to our

    VivirLatino 2008

  • The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) – which along with the domesticated llama (Lama glama), the alpaca (Lama pacos), and the wild guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is one of four distinctive camel species found in the Tropical Andes – represents an important conservation success story for this hotspot.

    Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes 2009

  • The Andean camelids are found in these and other ecoregions, including the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), llama (Lama glama), guanaco (Lama guanacoe), and alpaca (Lama pacos).

    Central Andean wet puna 2007

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