MENDOZA

[s. 472] : A town in Argentina, South Amerthe state of Mendoza, situated 95 miles S. of San Juan and 620 miles W. by N. of Buenos Aires. Its altitude is 2,559 feet. Its climate is dry and temperate. All its finest ica, capital of buUdings were destroyed by earthquake in 1881. Population of 18,000. Station of the ME, with (1903) 1 mi ionary and wife, 1 place of worship, 1 Sunday school, and 73 profe ed Christians, of whom 72 are communicants. 472