Word: tuxtepec
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...camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide a catch basin to control floods. A war will be waged on the hookworm disease and malaria that infest the hot lowlands...
...cyclone struck Mexico's west coast. Another roared up the rainy Gulf, obliterating tropical Tuxtepec, near Vera Cruz. Thousands of refugees took refuge in treetops. Over hundreds of bodies flocks of buzzards wheeled. Banana and corn crops were destroyed...
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