There are Andean villages renowned for their colorful textiles and sprawling markets, Afro - Ecuadorian towns where days end with meals of fresh seafood and memorable sunsets, and remote settlements in the Amazon where shamans still harvest the traditional rainforest medicines of their ancestors. (lonelyplanet.com)
The B.C. government has been helping remote settlements reduce their dependence on diesel, which must be trucked or flown in and burned, by developing run - of - river energy — a kind of hydro power drawn from running water, rather than dams. (canadianbusiness.com)
«Recently, a total of 82 Boko Haram insurgents were killed in combat and 630 remote settlements cleared by troops. (nigeriapoliticsonline.com)