Located on the northern coast of the South American continent, Colombia is the second largest country in South America. The country borders on Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, among others, and is home to the highest coastal mountain range on...
Los Roques is an archipelago that is part of the South Antilles, located in the Caribbean Sea, 166 km north of the coast of Venezuela. This is one of the few places on the planet that has retained its original beauty...
La Paz, Bolivia: Bolivia’s metropolis at lofty heights With a location between 3200 and 4100 meters, La Paz is the highest seat of government in the world. Neither backpackers nor study travelers should miss out on La Paz. The mixture of...
Civil wars and the extermination of the indigenous Since Independence, according to Bridgat, Uruguay has tried to join the Western world by expelling one of the surviving indigenous peoples, known as the Charruas, to keep their lands. The 18 of April of 1831, being...
Numerous studies assure that the original settlement of Chile occurred around the year 10,500 BC, at the end of the Upper Paleolithic, a period of the Paleolithic that extends approximately from the year 33,000 BC. C. until 9,000 a. C. According to...
Peru is not without reason called the land of contrasts, for Peru has something for everyone. Discover Cuzco and the Sacred Valley, walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Do not deceive yourself for a walk in the Amazon’s deep rainforest...
Experience the amazing nature and wildlife of the frozen continent Antarctica is the most isolated continent on the planet, which only a few are allowed to experience. The frozen Arctic Ocean offers sumptuous, different nature experiences, and the landscape is both rich...
Time Zones in Brazil Due to the great longitudinal extension (east-west), Brazil has more than 1 time zone in its territory. These time zones lag behind areas to the east, including the Greenwich Meridian. Thus, if the Brazilian oceanic islands are...
Agriculture and Livestock. The state economy has been organized, since colonial times, around the collection of forest products. The economic collapse of rubber was followed by a prolonged crisis, from which it was not until 1930 that the state began to...
The four most numerous religions have billions of believers spread across the planet: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Non-religious and atheists number about 1.2 billion people and are prevalent in countries like China. 1 – Christians The Christianity is the religion...
With the fusion of cultural and religious elements, religious syncretism in Brazil was born with the arrival of the first Portuguese colonizers who brought the teachings of Catholicism. With the presence of African slaves, alongside the Indians, this process intensified. Africans...
The map of black cultural production and its urban and rural history is being organized and already partially made available through computerized means. The history now available only in closed collections or of difficult access, also abroad, sometimes fragmented, is being...
Zombie, show your face! Now, at the end of its quarter century, the country is undergoing profound changes. In the early 1900s, representatives of the state and the leading sectors promised that this would be a white country in a hundred...
The identity of a people, in a national state, can change, slowly, following historical changes or more quickly, especially during periods of war or major local or world transformations. Often such changes are generated over a period of time and, after...
