https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p Made with serendipity en-us 2017-03-02 15:50:40 UTC 2025-10-12 18:23:00 UTC hello@padlet.com jasdmine_castellanos2019 https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157373770 The summit of Chimborazo, the point on the Earth's surface that is farthest from the Earth's center. Chimborazo is an ice-capped inactive volcano in Ecuador. Chimborazo, with an elevation rise of 13,527 feet (4,123 meters), is the 16th most prominent mountain in the world and the highest mountain in Ecuador. Chimborazo then erupted several times during the Holocene, the last time around 550 AD ± 150. Chimborazo has a circumference of 78 miles and a diameter of 30 miles. Its crater is 820 feet deep and has a surface diameter of 1,600 feet.


]]> 2017-03-02 15:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157373770 jasdmine_castellanos2019 https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157380240 The Huancavelica area features a rough geography with highly varied elevation, from 1,950 metres in the valleys to more than 5,000 metres on its snow-covered summits. In the pre-Incan era, Huancavelica was known as the Wankawillka region or "the place where the grandsons of the Wankas live". surrounded by a pleasant environment of natural, therapeutic hot springs, fertile lands, lakes and snowy mountains: the heart of the Andes, dominated by two great cultures, the Wari and the Chancha.]]> 2017-03-02 16:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157380240 jasdmine_castellanos2019 https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157382588 The Carnival of Oruro is a religious festival dating back more than 200 years that takes place in Oruro, Bolivia. The native Itu ceremonies were banned by the Spanish in the 17th century, during their rule over Upper Peru. However, the Uru continued to observe the festival in the form of a Catholic ritual on Candlemas, in the first week of each February. Christian icons were used to conceal portrayals of Andean gods, and the Christian saints stood in for other minor Andean divinities. The ceremony began forty days before Easter. The modern festival demonstrates the ongoing pagan-Catholic blend of religious practice in the region. The carnival starts with a ceremony dedicated to the Virgen del Socavon. Marching bands compete simultaneously in the grotto of Pie de Gallo on Sunday, which is the greeting to the Virgin. 

]]> 2017-03-02 16:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157382588 jasdmine_castellanos2019 https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157383608 Potosí is a city and the capital of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world by elevation at a nominal 4,090 metres (13,420 ft).[2] For centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint. Native-American laborers were conscripted and forced to work in Potosí's silver mines through the traditional Incan mita system of contributed labor. During the Bolivian War of Independence (1809–1825), Potosí frequently passed between the control of Royalist and Patriot forces. Major leadership mistakes came when the First Auxiliary Army arrived from Buenos Aires (under the command of Juan José Castelli), this led to an increased sense that Potosi required its own independent government.]]> 2017-03-02 16:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jasdmine_castellanos2019/rd7zy2pod43p/wish/157383608