It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read From Frontier Town to Metropolis by Jane M. Rausch
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogotá, the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years-even though "El Portal de la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century governments...
From Frontier Town to Metropolis by Jane M. Rausch is 231 pages long, and a total of 57,981 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read From Frontier Town to Metropolis aloud.
From Frontier Town to Metropolis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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