The Main Parade, Cortejo Alegórico, is held on Saturday of the Carnival weekend. The air reverberates with Samba music while thousands of costumed participants and floats move through the streets, ...

Figure 1 The locality of the Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro on the left. The trap nests’ disposition in the field area on the right. Figure 2 Climatic parameters measured in the Jardim Botânico do ...

Madeira's vast levada network spans an impressive 3,100km on an island that measures just 55km long and 22km wide. It's thought the first levadas, which date back almost 600 years, were engineered ...

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Madeira — the largest island in an archipelago of the same name — is so steep that even inland, when I walked through a vineyard or dined on a hillside, bright water framed the view.

What are the levadas in Madeira? The Madeira levadas are a network of narrow, man-made water channels that were built between the 15th and 20th centuries and were started by Madeira’s earliest ...

CASOS PREVIOS It has been just over a week since the last fire in the Cercado de Lima. The most recent emergency was attended to at the Dirincri headquarters located on Avenida España. On April 3 ...

An impressive 16th-century church and convent, Santo Domingo is the final resting place of two important Peruvian saints, including the continent's first black saint, San Martín de Porres, whose skull ...

In the 16th century, when Lima was young, Catholic congregations were allotted sections of the city to build their monasteries, convents, and churches in honor of various patron saints. Most of these ...

Construction of the Cathedral of Lima, which is located at Plaza de Armas, started in 1535. Francisco Pizarro, the city’s founder, requested the architecture in neoclassical style inspired by the ...