The village of Huaytú, a new development in lowland Bolivia for settlers from the overcrowded highlands was surveyed as a pattern of lots alongside one main road. Families would get a reasonable amount of land right on the road, then would have property in the shape of a narrow rectangle extending well back into the forest. So it looked like some hybrid of a town and a rural area, with houses not particularly close together, but extending over quite a distance from one end of the town to the other. A school and church were placed at a central location along the road and there was little traffic vehicle traffic, as most of the people were poor and others had little reason to come here.
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