[4] no tengo ideas precisas, I have no exact idea on the subject. VARIANT: No conozco bien (el asunto).
[5] por el sur, on the south side.
[6] al sur de la meseta, south of the tableland.
[7] regiones climatéricas, climatic regions. Related Words: Estación de las lluvias, rainy season; estación seca, dry season; pampero, a very strong wind from the pampas; zonda, hot wind from the equator, blowing through the Andean valleys; nevazón, snow-storm in the Andes; bochorno, sultry weather in northern South America; brillazón, mirage effect in the pampas; temblor or terremoto, violent earthquake shock.
[8] ¿Cómo así? How is that? VARIANT: ¿Cómo es éso?
[9] Por lo tanto, Therefore.
[10] en dirección contraria, in the opposite direction.
[11] Así, pues, So then. VARIANTS: Por lo tanto, por consiguiente.
[12] plantación, plantation. Related Words: Caballería, a piece of land, about a hundred acres; agrarian term common in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico; cocal, cocoanut-tree plantation; piñal, pineapple plantation; yerbal, a plantation of Paraguayan tea; tabacal, tobacco plantation; chinampa, floating gardens in some Mexican rivers and lakes.
[13] la meseta así formada, the table-land thus formed. VARIANT: La meseta que la cordillera forma.