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| What places would you go to? |
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-Inca Trails (El Camino del Inca)
-Macchu Picchu
-Cuzco
-Lago Titicaca (Las islas flotantes de los uros)
-Nazca (Las líneas de Nazca en la Pampa de Nazca) |
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-system of roads
-covers more than 30 thousand kilometers
-tourists like to hike it now, it takes four days
-start in Macchu Picchu, end in Cuzco
-you see all kinds of geographical formations along the way
-hacer un excurcion, observar la vida silvestre, observar las estrellas |
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-most remebered sight of Incan life
-lots of buildings, etc |
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| Captial of Imperical Inca |
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| Las islas flotantes de los uros |
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-boats made of a plant called totora
-uros: some of the oldest houses in the Americas
-made so the people could live away from the Incas and los collas
-put new layers on the preserve them
-today about 30 to 50 people live in the archipélago |
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-en la pampa de Naca (very arid region)
-wind and rain never come it seems
-between 550 and 650 d.C. they were made
-geometric shapes and shapes of animals
-no one knows why they did it or why they haven't erased over time
-in the south of perú |
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-had a military government for many years
-1980 they had democratic elections
-the first president couldn't control the fighting
-then 1990-2000, Alberto Fujimori was president and everything was the best it had ever been. but there were lots of scandal claims
-the legislative body made him go away
-in 2001, Alejandro Toledo was elected
-he promised reformations of most the systems |
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-pretty much every vocabulary word
-pampas, lagos, cordillas, etc, etc |
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-Again, vocab words
-condor, puma, guanaco, llama, etc, etc
-varied |
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