Unidad 5 Cultura

Quito, Lima, La Paz y Sucre

Zonas mas bajas (low areas) heat during the day, fresh or cool during the night, also zonas altas like Mach Picchu (with extremely cold temperatures)

Llapingachos, ceviche, papas a la hauncaina, llunca, picante de pollo, fricase

Quechua, aymara

Franklin briones (director de cine ecuador) tania libertad (cantante de peru) Mario Vargas Llosa (escritor de peru) Caluda cornejo (atleta bolivia)

Young latinamericans share likes with their friends. Sports, music, and the movies serve to meet and have fun in the company of best friends. It's not important the place or tieme, what's important is the friendship

In the ruins of andean countries you can see the rich idigenous culture. En places like macchu pichu in peru or Ignapirca in Ecuador and tiwaniku in bolivia you can see how the ancient civilizations live.

Lake titicaca is between bolivia and peru and is the highest lake in the world at 3800 m. Here was the incan empire and for that reason this zone is filled with mysteries and legends. Their mountains were rich en gold and silver and their land was appropraite for cultivating potatoes

An organization that supports the democracy and human rights. The flags represent the countries of the americas.

En la paz bolivia, in a colonial house that dates back to the 15th century. has a collection of jewelry and other precious objects like gold, silver and copper (made by varius idigenous groups that occupied territory that is now bolivia) the gold is very valuable and kept in a special section. the incan and pre-incan ceramica are also of great hisotirc value and interest

The painting of tigua, a village in the center of ecuador, represents the tradicional life of the village of the andes. their images reflect hisotry festivals and legends of the community in order that other people can teach more about the life of the village. the community of tigua-chimbacucho now has a gallery of paintings and other crafts for tourists and collectors can buy the works of art

Born in cochabamba bolivia. Received a doctorate in hispanicamerican lit in the university of California en Berkely, and in 1997 won the prize "Juan Rolfo" . he is an author of various books from amores imperfectos, suenos digitales, and a collection of work desencuentros.

The frist maps of the world appeared en the 16th century after columbus arrive in the new world. The map created by martin weldseemuller in 1507 es the first that included latamerica and was not exact if you compared with modern maps

Aguamarina- map was misprinted so citizens had to use it for a year cuz no take out money from gov. budget. this converted into a pastime. When a year past, they decided not ot fix the errors but to make more. soon became a competition.

Bolivia and peru- spanish quechua and aymara
ecuador- quehcua and spansih
"alpaca" came form aymara language