Illegal Trespassing and a Botanical Inventory of the Mapocho River in downtown Santiago, Chile during the summer season in late January reveals a host of exotic invasives as well as a few native plants, like Lithraea caustica, Beilschmiedia miersii, Cryptocarya alba, and Quillaja saponaria.
Despite the color, the river is remarkably clean and devoid of sewage, mostly containing runoff from the high Andes to the East.
Eric Walton
2025-01-26 18:32:52 +0000 UTC