Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012
Historical Review
Malaria in Highlands of Ecuador since 1900
Figure 2

Figure 2. Railway construction at base of the Devil’s Nose switchbacks, Ecuador, showing railway on the left and stone-lined riverbed on the right, where several pools can be seen (likely formed by falling rocks from construction), which would likely have provided suitable habitat for Anopheles pseudopunctipennis larvae. Photograph: Historical Archive of Banco Central and García Idrovo (14).
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