However, a significant proportion of Ecuador's Andean population speaks the ancient Incan language of Quechua and a variety of related dialects. |
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Perhaps the most distinctive dress in the Andean region is worn by the Otavalo Indians, a subgroup of the Quechuas of Peru. |
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The potato, which was first domesticated by ancient Andean farmers, has been a staple in the region ever since. |
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The third cultivated species, the Andean yam bean, rarely occurs today outside Bolivia. |
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Binary coding is culturally salient because Andean social organization and conceptual systems are primarily structured in dualisms. |
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We huddled closely around its glowing embers as they struggled to keep at bay the piercing chill of the Andean night. |
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Humboldt, primarily a geographer, documented the biology of the Andean Condor and discovered the guacharo. |
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They are not found from Franklinian, Andean, Italian, and Tasmanian geosynclines and their adjacent shelves. |
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The south coast of Peru is the region that much of Andean prehistory bases its archaeological chronology on, so this is not a minor issue. |
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It is limited to the east and south by wide cratonic areas, whereas to the west it is bounded by the Andean volcanic arc. |
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At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Andean condor's silhouette was a common sight along the entire Andes cordillera. |
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Granitic magmatism at convergent margins is intrinsic to the growth of continents and is an integral part of Andean geology. |
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The Andean cock-of-the-rock is a brilliantly colored, pigeon-size bird known for its elaborate courtship displays. |
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For example, in the Andean region of South America chicha is traditionally made from pulverized corn. |
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The foundation of the Bolivian diet in the Andean highlands or altiplano is the potato. |
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Children sat along the chancel step, singing with guitars, drums and Andean pan flutes. |
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The Andean sun bears down, harsh and strong, in stark contrast to a chilly wind blowing from the mountain. |
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Cultivated oca has an important place in the diets and farming systems of rural communities in the Andean highlands. |
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But in rural villages and hamlets of the Andean highlands, it remains partially intact. |
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But since then, the violent upthrusting of the Andean chain has carried the sediments to the tops of mountains. |
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The lake was the cradle of Andean civilisation and remains enduringly known as the birthplace of the Inca empire. |
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The specialty here was Andean steak, served with a bunch of different toppings. |
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The tamarillo is subtropical rather than tropical and flourishes between 5,000 and 10,000 ft. in its Andean homeland. |
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My MA was in the same kind of anthropology, although my thesis focussed on Andean archaeology and ethnohistory. |
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In the bar, we lounged and drank cocktails while a group of musicians entertained us with Andean music. |
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At one remove, Andean food customs that had passed into general currency in Colombia were also common usage in Panama. |
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We will climb as high as 4,200 feet in the mountains and have to cope with the humidity of Andean rainforests. |
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Evangelical sects are growing, especially among urban poor and Andean peasants. |
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Solid-colored llama wool sweaters offer protection against the cold Andean night air. |
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The Andean condor, one of the world's largest flying birds, soars on ten-foot wingspans and can weigh up to 33 pounds. |
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Donning replicas of Inca tunics, rather than contemporary Andean garb, Quechua Indians reenact the Inca sun-worshiping ceremony. |
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Bloodshed, even death, are overt objectives as extended Andean families, called ayllus, square off in slugfests that can last from a few minutes to nearly a week. |
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In the western part, the Andean cordillera extends from north to south. |
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Soon enough, I felt my own guts rebelling and stepped out into the crystalline Andean night. |
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At least 50,000 families in the Andean highlands rely on herding alpaca for income and to sustain themselves. |
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What's more, many offer Andean music and folk dancers in traditional costume. |
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The Andean nation depends on the U.S. for trade deals that help employ over 400,000 people. |
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These data support the idea that the Andean rain shadow existed by 15 Ma and that it reinforced the pre-existing climatic regime rather than changing it. |
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The orographie impact of the Andean Cordillera can be seen clearly, enhancing rainfall on the east slope and forming a rain shadow on the west slope. |
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The earlier stages of Andean mountain building had created a system of lagoons, and later lakes, in the South American interior, and a system of islands in the south. |
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There are 105 species of birds in the park and mammals ranging from Andean foxes to pumas that only rarely venture down from their mountain lairs. |
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With these bases, the US military is able to project air power over the Eastern Pacific, the Western Caribbean, all of Central America, and South America's Andean ridge. |
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We're working hard on a free trade agreement that will link the United States and Colombia as well as other Andean nations of South America in a wider economic partnership. |
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Young musicians living in the Andes can move between traditional music, salsa, techno-cumbia and Andean rock due to sophisticated battery operated electronic systems. |
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Lynn A. Meisch has conducted fieldwork in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia since 1973 and has published extensively on Andean life and culture. |
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Later we saw the president in a meeting with Andean leaders, also sitting down and appearing before the cameras with the leader of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner. |
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The pre-Andean and Andean orogenies are separated by a Mesozoic transitional period, which is marked by a very different style of tectonism and magmatism. |
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In May 1735, a team of 10 scientists left for the Andean town of Quito, in the viceroyalty of Peru, a Spanish colonial possession that encompassed most of South America. |
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There is fertile land on the Andean plateau but not in abundance. |
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We know more about the Incas than their Andean predecessors because of their fateful contact with the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. |
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Some indigenous deputies make a strong cultural presence on the floor wearing traditional Andean ear-flap hats and ponchos and chewing coca leaves. |
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He battled huge updrafts and downdrafts to take Solo Spirit up and over a 6700-metre Andean peak in a manoeuvre so risky he opted to wear a parachute. |
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But more than rogue diplomacy was on display in the Andean escape. |
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The Andean families are not subject to the same climatological forces affecting species in the lowland tropics. |
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Did it belong to South America or to Antarctica? Where was the junction or separation of the Andean and Antarctican mountain systems? |
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The indigenous population of the Andean region was not able to benefit from government reforms. |
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Caviids are grassland-scrubland species, while abrocomids are small herbivores of xeric Andean habitats. |
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Chinchiv musicians combine with Peruvian cajon, guiro, jawbone, bongos, conga, Andean violin and guitar. |
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The plethora of civilizations in the Andean region provided for a general disunity that the Incas had to subdue in order to maintain control. |
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Likewise, Vargas Llosa labels the Andean barbaric, leaving Hispanicization as the only option for the indigenous cultures of Peru. |
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Urton is an Andean scholar whose studies meld ethnography, ethnohistory, and ethnoscience. |
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The Inca Empire was the last chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilization. |
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Fifteen million years ago, the main tectonic uplift phase of the Andean chain started. |
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In the Andean region the term kuraka was also used as an alternative to cacique. |
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It can be found at the high valleys of the Andean territory, in Peru and Bolivia. |
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Bone marrow specimens from an Andean mummy about 1500 years old were reported to have shown the presence of the A subtype. |
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Peru is an active member of several regional blocs and one of the founders of the Andean Community of Nations. |
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This may increase cria survival by reducing fatalities due to hypothermia during cold Andean nights. |
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While Spanish armour was very effective against most of the Andean weapons, it was not impenetrable to maces, clubs, or slings. |
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Of the major battles fought, at Cajamarca the Spanish ambushed the Andean warriors and killed 1,500 without suffering any losses. |
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As a defense against the Inca, the Andean chiefdoms formed alliances with each other. |
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Winter cloudiness prompts locals to seek for sunshine in Andean valleys located at elevations generally above 500 meters above sea level. |
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These generally occur during afternoons and evenings when leftovers from Andean storms arrive from the east. |
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Lima is home to the headquarters of the Andean Community of Nations, along with other regional and international organizations. |
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The city is known as the Gastronomical Capital of the Americas, mixing Spanish, Andean and Asian culinary traditions. |
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In the Andean region, sculptures were typically small, but often show superb skill. |
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Other precious wild highland species include foxes and tarukas, the mysterious Andean cat and the titi monkey. |
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Then back at the zoo we marvelled at the giant Andean Condors, the world's largest flying birds and the strangely beautiful King Vultures. |
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But the high point was probably the first day of the trip, when we were on a mountainside opposite the roost of half a dozen Andean condors. |
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The Incas believed that Andean condors flew the sun into the sky every morning and served as messengers to the gods. |
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These early developments were followed by archaeological cultures that developed mostly around the coastal and Andean regions throughout Peru. |
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The geology of the archipelago is characterized by the effects of the Andean orogeny and the repeated Pleistocene glaciations. |
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Andean music is popular to different degrees across Latin America, having its core public in rural areas and among indigenous populations. |
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Maize was also an important crop for these people, and was used for the production of chicha, important to Andean native people. |
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On the mammal front, vicuna, viscachas, and Andean foxes are also commonly seen. |
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To the west of these, a similar longitudinal depression extends all along the foot of the snowy Andean Cordillera. |
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The main surviving languages of the Andean peoples are those of the Quechua and Aymara language families. |
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It saw significant growth in the Andean countries, including Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. |
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Usted is also used that way as well as between parents and children in the Andean regions of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. |
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Paleobiogeographic relationships of Andean angiosperms of Cretaceous to Pliocene age. |
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As a direct opposite of the humid Andean slopes are the relatively dry Andean slopes in most of western Peru, Chile and Argentina. |
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The Andean volcanism is a result of subduction of the Nazca Plate and Antarctic Plate underneath the South American Plate. |
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As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. |
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The regions immediately east of the Andes experience a series of changes resulting from the Andean orogeny. |
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After World War II, the Andean countries saw an expansion of trade, specifically with cocaine. |
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But there have been other beauties, such as a vermilion flycatcher, an Andean condor and a burrowing owl. |
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Large numbers of Andean peoples have also migrated to form Quechua, Aymara, and intercultural communities in the lowlands. |
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Look for the Andean strongman to double down on the next campaign. |
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Thirteen chapters focus on specific crops, including grasspea, lathyrus, bambara groundnut, the Andean lupin, quinoa, chenopodium, and cocoyam. |
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A pair of Andean condors, Gus and Sonya, hold residency at the Colwyn Bay attraction, and are part of a carefully controlled European Breeding Programme. |
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The cathedral is known for a Cusco School painting of the Last Supper depicting Jesus and the twelve apostles feasting on guinea pig, a traditional Andean delicacy. |
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Working with Sergio Lambertucci from the National University of Comahue, she will be fitting Andean condors with custom-made data loggers in order to map their flight paths. |
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Its streets are narrow and the houses are mainly built in the Republican Andean style from adobe plastered with plaster, with large wooden doors or hallways. |
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In the 1940s Lima started a period of rapid growth spurred by migration from the Andean region, as rural people sought opportunities for work and education. |
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The lo andino approach drew on structuralist social analysis and substantivist economics to argue for deeply held and unique Andean social practices and values. |
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Under his rule and that of his son, Topa Inca Yupanqui, the Incas came to control most of the Andean region, with a population of 9 to 16 million inhabitants under their rule. |
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The water-soluble extract, rich in phytonutrients, is prepared from the ancient Andean physalis fruit, also known as Inca berry, cape gooseberry or golden berry. |
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Sharp violin-like sounds come from the male club-winged manakin, a tiny songbird from the Andean cloud forest in South America, yet not all come from his beak. |
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Peru is planning full integration into the Andean Free Trade Area. |
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Andean music comes from the general area inhabited by Quechuas, Aymaras and other peoples that roughly in the area of the Inca Empire prior to European contact. |
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Using MyDealerLot, Andean Chevrolet deployed 375 AeroScout motion sensor Wi-Fi tags to the rear-view mirrors of their new and used vehicle inventory. |
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The population is concentrated in the Andean highlands and along the Caribbean coast, also the population densities are generally higher in the Andean region. |
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The introduction by Brooke Larson outlines the history of Andean studies, acknowledging ethnohistorian John Murra as the great patriarch of the field. |
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Likewise there has been since 1992 a flowering of indigenous theologies, or teologia india, with many encuentros across Latin America, especially in the Andean region. |
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Many Latin Americans, notable Argentines, Cubans, and Guatemalans, have made Tijuana their home, especially people from Central America and Andean nations. |
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It also has been influenced by anglicisms as a result of globalization, as well as by Andean Spanish and Quechua, due to migration from the Andean highlands. |
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We also see the Andean cock-of-the-rock, a bird similar to the toucan. |
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The Andean condor, the largest bird of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, occurs throughout much of the Andes but generally in very low densities. |
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Andean textile weavings were of practical, symbolic, religious, and ceremonial importance and used as currency, tribute, and as a determinant of social class and rank. |
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Strongly influenced by European, Andean, African and Asian culture, Lima is a melting pot, due to colonization, immigration and indigenous influences. |
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Before Spanish colonization, the Andean region of Bolivia was part of the Inca Empire, while the northern and eastern lowlands were inhabited by independent tribes. |
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Although cratons are not tectonically active, they can be located near active margins, such as the Brazilian craton at the rear of the Andean active margin. |
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