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Native Crops of Peru – Theobroma cacao
Theobroma cacao is a tree fruit endemic to the South American rainforest and distributed to Central America by humans. It was domesticated about 3,000 years ago by local indigenous people in the...
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The rubber boom
From the 1890s to the 1920s rubber from the Peruvian jungle was in high demand, it was used to produce tires for automobiles, waterproof shoes and clothes. Rubber tree . Foreign companies settled in...
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Peru’s Forest Indians
Indians living in the forest were less affected by the Spanish conquerors than the Andean Indians. Spanish missionaries reached the area later in the eighteenth century but the real clash with the...
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Peru’s Amazon Jungle and Rainforest
The Peruvian rainforest More than three quarters of the Peruvian territory lies east of the Andes. The jungle or Selva has two parts, the high and the low Selva. The high Selva is also known as the...
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Amazon River Ecosystem and Biodiversity
The Amazon River is the greatest river of South America and its biodiversity the richest of any river in the world. Its waters are populated by 2,500 different species of fish, scientists believe that...
View ArticleFacts about the Amazon River
According to the U.S Geological Survey the length of Amazon River is 4,000 miles (6,437 km). The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world after the Nile River in Egypt at 4,132 miles...
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The Amazing Amazon River
The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world about 4,000 miles or 6,450 km long, second only to the Nile River. In terms of volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world, it...
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The Rainforest Economy
Ever since the Europeans came to the Amazon basin its natural resources have been exploded. The first European settlers grew crops and traded them. The first economic exploitation of the region came in...
View ArticleAmazon Rainforest Animals
The Amazon Rainforest is home to more than 10,000 species of mammals, with a great majority comprised by bats and rodents. Bats account for about 950 of the mammal species. The Amazon is the only place...
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The Amazon Rainforest
For centuries the Amazon rainforest has been cleared of plants as soon as humans come in contact with it, be it because of slash-and-burn farming, oil drilling, mining or cutting exotic trees for...
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Native Crops of Peru – Pure Nacional Cacao
In 2007, Pure Nacional, a variety of the cacao tree was rediscovered in Peru, to the world’s chocolate makers it was a delight. In 1916 the plant was hit by disease and within a few years 100% of the...
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Peru’s Forest Indians
Indians living in the forest were less affected by the Spanish conquerors than the Andean Indians. Spanish missionaries reached the area later in the eighteenth century but the real clash with the...
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The rubber boom
From the 1890s to the 1920s rubber from the Peruvian jungle was in high demand, it was used to produce tires for automobiles, waterproof shoes and clothes. Rubber tree . Foreign companies settled in...
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