-Timbuktu Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Tombouctou Region of Mali. It is the largest cercle by area in the whole of Mali. The capital lies at the city of Timbuktu.Wikipedia

·         Population,

o    124,546 (2009)

o    Timbuktu facts,

o    Timbuktu was also an important center for trade. It sits near the Niger River on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Caravans of tradesmen traveling by camel stopped in Timbuktu to get water and food as they traveled.

o    For hundreds of years, Timbuktu was a center of scholarly study in the Islamic world.

o    Thousands of students came to learn here. Three ancient mosques still

stand and the city holds many ancient books and papers.

 

o    Timbuktu started as a summer encampment for nomadic tribes of the region.   

o    Abdulrahman H

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DYLAN CAMPLING

Now that's a lot of parapenters!

Venice with it's 160 square miles of total area and 3 feet of elevation was not built directly on the land of the islands but in fact on wooden stilts. 

Venice was built approximately 1500  years ago and is home to one of the narrowest streets in the world which is only 53cm wide and called Calletta. 
By Grace Gosling

It is on the border of France and Italy. “Mont Blanc” means “white mount” in French.If you look at a map, Mont Blanc may often have two names: Monte Bianco is Italian.

It was first climbed in 1786 by Jaques Balmat and Michel Paccard. Everest was first climbed 167 years later in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. Mont Blanc is around half the height of Everest (Everest is 8,848 meters tall).

 

Fact : The youngest person ever to climb Mont Blanc was Londoner Asher Silver, aged 10. Whereas the youngest person ever to climb Mt. Everest was American Jordan Romero who was 13 years old! 

Mont Blanc has a glacier which is split into four sections; the Mer de Glace; the Bossons; the Argentiere; and the Miage

Over half of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil but it is also located in other South American countries including Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guiana.

10% of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rainforest.

20% of the world’s bird species live in the Amazon rainforest.

It is home to around 2 and a half million different insect species as well as over 40000 plant species.

There are also a number of dangerous species living in the Amazon rainforest such as the cougar, jaguar and anaconda.

While the protection of the Amazon rainforest remains an issue, deforestation rates have been reducing while areas of conserved land have been increasing over the last 10 years.

In both 2005 and 2010 the Amazon rainforest suffered severe droughts that killed off large amounts of vegetation in the worst affected areas.
Charlie K