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17 Cards in this Set
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Yungas |
300-2300m -grows cotton, peppers, fruit and coca! -warm climate |
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Quechua |
2300-3500m -very productive zone, fertile valleys -grows corn, potato -cooler area |
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Suni |
3500-4000m -to high for most crops -grassland -lots of herding and grazing |
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Puna |
4000-5000m -rolling country -no crop growth -hunt dear and guanaco and camelids |
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Cordillera Negra |
5000m -mountain chain |
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Cordillera Blanca |
6000m + -permanent ice and snow -considered a living thing to the indigenous people (tira)
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Montana |
permanent cloud forest -very warm |
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Upper forest |
high, hilly country -jungle like, has lots of rivers -lots of animals -grow fruits and vegetables |
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lower forest |
flat and green -cloud forests with small streams
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Lake Titicaca |
Border between Bolivia and Peru -highest lake in the world |
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Atiplano |
3500-4000m -Mountains around it -herding territory -where potatoes were domesticated
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Alpaca
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domesticated, short snout -raised for wool -domesticated for 4000 years |
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Llama |
Domesticated, breed for work -can carry 40 kg
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Cuy-Guinea pigs |
live indoors with people -raised for food, only on special occasions |
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Viscacha
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Wild, rabbit squirrel mix -caught and eaten |
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Iquitos |
large Amazonian village -on amazon river -only accessed by plane |
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Why did the Incas never penetrate the Amazon? |
-people in the forest wouldn't do battle, no king to surrender
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