The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos in South America are being hailed as heroes of the high plateaus for their resilience to harsh environments and climate change, as well as ...

You may like Massive circular tomb filled with battle-scarred people ... (Today the Quechua can be found around the world with large numbers living in either Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile ...

Across the Andes—primarily in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, with smaller pockets in Columbia, Argentina and even the United States—some 8 to 10 million people speak Quechua. For Loayza, Quechua is more ...

Ecuador may be small in size ... Quilotoa and some of the others are just photographic destinations. But to the Quichua people that call this area home, these geothermal phenomenon are more ...

Quechua, also known as Runa Simi (the “language of the people”), is one of the most significant indigenous languages of the Americas. Once the administrative language of the Inca Empire, it remains ...

Following his death, Ecuador’s National Institute of Cultural Heritage hailed Mr. Ushca as “a reference for the knowledge of our people” for preserving the traditions of the ice harvesters.

Following his death, Ecuador’s National Institute of Cultural Heritage hailed Ushca as “a reference for the knowledge of our people” for preserving the traditions of the ice harvesters.

Shuar and Quichua people in Ecuador have been known to feed their dogs psychoactive plants for this reason. A 2015 study in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology studied 43 plant species the Shuar and ...

great for the soil and people. What could be better?” he said. Grown in the high Andean mountains of Ecuador and Northern Peru, chocho has been a staple protein source for the inhabitants of the ...

It’s a situation commonly faced by Quechua speakers in South America, even though the language is used by an estimated 10 million people in the region — largely in Peru,. Ecuador and Bolivia ...