Sentences with phrase «peruvian highlands»

This is just the most recent attempt to harass and force them to leave her home in Tragadero Grande, located in the northern Peruvian highlands of Cajamarca, in order to try to develop the proposed Conga mine.

Acuña, a grandmother, lives in the remote northern Peruvian highlands on an off - grid subsistence farm, which she and her husband purchased in 1994.

A selection of four journeys include «Peruvian Highlands», a two night, three day journey departing from Cusco, the capital of the

June through October is the dry season in the Peruvian highlands.

Coming down to the coast from the Peruvian highlands is in a way a relief.

Peruvian Highlands (Cusco — Lake Titicaca — Arequipa City) 2 nights / 3 days: With a morning departure from Cusco, the capital of the ancient Inca Empire, you will cross the Altiplano towards Puno, and discover the spectacular beauty of Lake Titicaca.

Next visit the Sumbay Caves, home to the rock art of the first humans that lived in the Peruvian highlands, before reaching the volcanic «White City» of Arequipa Andean Plains and Islands of Discovery (Arequipa — Lake Titicaca — Cusco) 2 nights / 2 days: With an evening departure from the Baroque city of Arequipa, you will head towards Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world.

This eco tour takes you high into the Peruvian Highlands and deep into the Amazon rainforest including iconic sites such as the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machu Picchu and the world's largest clay...

Flying into the Peruvian highlands, we encounter Cuzco, a city replete with Inca architecture and colonial charm.

, Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology of Lepidium meyenii (Maca), a Plant from the Peruvian Highlands, 2012

For this reason, it is regularly consumed for nourishment by the natives of the Peruvian highlands.

«There is a long tradition of archaeology in both central Mexico and the Peruvian highlands,» said Kennett.

Humans domesticated the sweet potato in the Peruvian highlands about 8000 years ago, and previous generations of scholars believed that Spanish and Portuguese explorers introduced the crop to Southeast Asia and the Pacific beginning in the 16th century.

A new study chronicles the collapse of the Wari, the first Andean empire, which controlled most of the Peruvian highlands and coast, integrating disparate cultures and building a network of roads that the Inca would later repurpose for their own empire.

Not exact matches

The novelist, Arguedas, worked toward a Peruvian transculturation, whereby the values of the highland people will not succumb to the blind, scientific or Western mentality of coastal culture.

So did other Peruvian polities, as far - flung as the Andean highlands and the Amazon basin, right up to the time of the Incas.

While on this incredible journey, trekkers will experience Peruvian biodiversity first - hand as they dive into a variety of microclimates, flora and fauna, typical Andean highlands, as well as the cloud forest of the Amazon.

You will experience the Peruvian landscapes by mountain bike on your first day and will then reach the city of Aguas Calientes walking in the Andean highlands and forests.

The vivid colours of the traditional Andean costumes are in stark contrast to the muted highlands, where Peruvian and Bolivian communities etch their existence.

They are Peruvians, fluent in English, born and raised in the Cuzco highlands, who have combined their love of the mountains of their homeland with years of professional training.