In chapter 13, section 2, you will find information concerning the following countries: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. In a comment, summarize the information you attain from the book and find one interesting fact from an alternative source. Provide the link you use for the interesting fact.
Countries:
Ecuador- Michael, Morgan, Mikayla, Baylee, Grayson, Alina, Chase
Peru- Talon, Amanda, Kevin, Jill, Sara, Dalton
Bolivia- O'neil, Ivy, Ian, Anna, Anne-Marie, Jackson
Chile- Mitch, Railey, Gracie, Lauren, Katie, Andrew
* Not a group project :)
By the way... this is due Friday, Feb. 1st
ReplyDeleteEcuador- One fourth of the population of Ecuador are of Indian descent. Half of Ecuador's population are mestizos. the population is evenly divided between the highlands and the coastal lowlands. In the 1960s, Ecuadorians discovered oil in the selva lowlands. Petroluem became one of Ecuador's most important exports.Detail not in the book- Youth for Youth is a benifit concert held on February 1. The money that is raised helps the orphans that are in Ecuador.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1500s, the conquistadors from Spain came to South America and pillaged the Incan empire, but the Incan people remain today. About 45% of the population speak Quechua or Aymara, Incan dialects. They live by subsistence farming or herding llamas or alpacas. Machu Picchu and Cuzco are interesting tourist sites, as important places in the Incan empire, a temple and a capital, respectively. Other Peruvians are mestizos that live in cities or the coastal plain. Many of them work for low wages in factories, as poverty is typical of this part of Peru. Just like Ecuador, Peru's wealth and most of the government is controlled by a minority of European-descended people. Also, many Asians migrated to Peru, like Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese-Peruvian who was elected to two terms as Peruvian president. Despite holding off a terrorist attack, and because of scandals of abuse of power and "stealing" a third term, Fujimori resigned. Since, Peru has struggled to establish a truly democratic government.
ReplyDeleteMy cool fact is: Voting in elections is compulsory for all citizens aged 18 to 70.
Link: http://wanttoknowit.com/interesting-facts-about-peru/
Interesting Fact! The official currency of equador has been the U.S. since 2001. http://www.10-facts-about.com/Ecuador/id/87 Equador includes the paramos and is located on the west coast. It is generally in the northeast. Equador has a infant mortallity rate of 32 per 1000 births and its life expectancy in years is 71.8%. Its population per physician is 625. It takes its name from the equator. This imaginary line cuts across this country. 12.9 million equadorians are of indian decent. Roughly half of the population is metizos. In the 1960s they discovered oil in the lowlands. Petroleum became one of its most important imports. People of european backround only make up 10% of the population but, they own the largest farms so theyhave the most political influence. If I messed up my spelling it was an accident.
ReplyDeleteI did my summary on Chile. End of the land or Chile was appropiately named this by Indians who once lived on this peice of land.You can find Chile edging the side of the west coastof South America. It looks as if its a long,narrow ribbon.Chile is about 2,700 miles long, but only 100 miles wide!! Its ethnics are about 2/3 of Mestizos, about 15 million people!! You could say another quarter of the ethnics are European descent, specifically Spanish,British,and Germans. Chile has few indians. In the north there is the Barren Atacama Desert and it is uninhabited. Where most the people of Chile live or 3/4 of them live is in the Central Valley. This region is of fertile river basins between Andes and the coastal ranges. You can grow there are fruit, vegetables, and wine grapes. Their productive summer season comes during the Northern Hemispheres winter and the products find markets in the U.S. and Europe. Many cities and factories are located in the Central Valley. The capital, Santiago is home to almost one third of the population.Most people are newcomers and are unskilled, so the capital has a high unemployment and a whole bunch of favelas. Even though the country has grown rapidly almost three million people still live below the poverty line.
ReplyDeleteBolivia- Bolivia is home too Lake Titicaca, the worlds highest navigable lake. Bolivia has many minerals, but the best ores have been removed. Most of the residents are Indians who are subsistence farmers who live in the highlands and farm potatoes, wheat, and barley. The Indians who live at higher elevations heard alpacas and llamas. Boliavian children help on the farms and herd the animals. The climate varies from humid tropical to cold semiarid. Bolivia has very tin air making it hard for nonnative people to breathe. Bolivia is collaborating with Brazil to fight the drug war.
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DeleteBolivia is a landlocked country so it has no coast ports to bring profit. It has lake Titicaca wich is the worlds highest navigateable lake. Boliva has many minerals but most have already been mined. Boliva's people are mostly native indians. they are also subsistence farmers. They can only grow potatoes, wheat, and barley beacuse of the wheather patterns. Its climate is varied with the altitude but it could be humid, tropical, and semiaird. A cool fact is that Bolivia has the largest salt deposit in the world(64 million tons!) and right underneath that is the largest deposit of lithum in the world! The website is http://www.boliviabella.com/bolivia-facts.html
ReplyDeleteMy fact that i have found is: http://www.countryreports.org/country/Chile.htm
ReplyDeleteand the fact says that when a child loses its tooth they give it to their mother and she will make it into a charm set into gold.
http://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/local/article_2a638426-69a2-11e2-9044-0019bb30f31a.html
ReplyDeleteChile-Chile, meaning "end of the land", was apropriately named by the Indians who once lived on this strip of land. Chile edges the west coast of South America like a long, narrow ribbon. The country is about 2,700 miles long but only averages 100 miles wide. 15 million people in Chile are Mestizos. In contrast, about three fourths of the Chilean people live in thickly populated central valley. FACT- today, Chile is one of south americas most stable and prosperous nations. wiki.org/chile
ReplyDeleteEcuador's name is taken by the Equator, which cuts across the whole country. Only about one-fourth of 12.9 million Ecuadorians are Indian Descent. Tehy speak Quechua, which is the language that the Incas speak. They follow the traditional lifestyle, which is practicing sunstince farming in Agriculture. About half of Ecuador's population are mestizos, who mainly speak Spanish and they live mainly highland cities and towns. Ecuador's population was concentrated in the mountainous central highland.
ReplyDeletemy interesting fact is: Ecuador's independence day is on August 10. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107479.html
Another cool fact about Peru: About 81% of the population describe themselves as Catholic. Only 2.9% of people identify themselves as non-religious.
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ReplyDeleteEquador got it's name because the equator cuts across the country. Abot one forth of the civilians are of Indian descent and speak Quechua, the language of the Incas. They are mostly subsistance farmers with a traditional lifestyle. Although Europeans make up only about ten percent of the population, they have the ost political influence. Roughly half of their population is Mestizo, who speak Spnish and live i the hghland cities and towns. A few decades ago, the population was concentrated in one main ara, but today, dueto internal migration, the peope of Equador are more evenly divided. Petrolium/oil is a very important export.
Equador fact:
ReplyDeleteTheir currency before adapting to the United States doller was known as Sucre!
http://www.10-facts-about.com/Ecuador/id/87
Peru was the heart of the Inca Empire. About 45% of Peru's population are Indians who speak Quechua or Aymara. Most live by subsistence farming or herding llamas or alpacas. The mestizos work for low wages in factories that produce fish meal for animal feed or on plantations that exports cotton, sugar cane, and rice. Poverty and unemployment are part of the character of Peru. Also, many Asians migrated to Peru.One is Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese-Peruvian who was elected to two terms as Peruvian president. Because of scandals of abuse of power and "stealing" a third term, Fujimori resigned. Peru struggled to establish a truly democratic government.
ReplyDeleteFACT: Peru is the largest producer in South America for gold, zinc, timber, iron ore and finest cotton.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/interesting-facts-about-peru.html
Ecuador used to be an incan empire until the Spanish came and over took it
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Chile edges the west coast of South America like along, narrow ribbon. About 2/3 of the approximately 15 million people in Chile are mestizos. Unlike other Andean nations, Chile has relatively few indians. About three fourths of the Chilean people live in thickly populated Central Valley. Most of Chile's cities and factories are also in the Central Valley. About 3 million people still live below the poverty line.
ReplyDeleteFact: The population of Chile is expected to be about 20.2 million by 2050
http://wanttoknowit.com/interesting-facts-about-chile/
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ReplyDeleteBolivia is a landlocked nation.In Bolivia there is a lake named Lake Titicaca that is the largest navigatable lake in the whole world! The land has many minerals, but a lot of them have been removed. Most of the people there are Indian subsistence farmers.The climate here varies according to elevation. Different crops are grown at different elevations. The cold, thin air of the high plateau makes physical activity difficult for non native people.
http://www.boliviabella.com/bolivia-facts.html
ReplyDeletethe second fact is cool
bolivia has the largest salt deposit in the world
Chile....Chile means the end of land.It was named by the Indians who wonce lived there.It borders the edge of the west coast of South America.Two thirds of the 15 million people that live there are mestizos,the other quarter are European descent.Most of the cities and factories are in the Central Valley.1 interesting fact.Chiles main religeon is catholic.
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ReplyDeletePeru was the heart of the vast Inca Empire, and that fell to the Spaniards in the early 1500s. Most of the people who live in Peru live by subsistence farming or even by herding llamas. Most other Peruvians are mestizos who live in urban areas in or near the coastal plain. For the most part, Peruvians work for low wages in factories that produce fish mean for animal feed or on plantations that export rice, cotton and sugar cane. Main items that are apart of the character of the place are poverty and unemployment.
In 1995, the president, Alberto Fujimori, a Peruvian that had Japanese ancestry, was elected to give a second term as Peru's president. However, in 2000, he resigned because of the rage in citizenry.
Fact outside of book: In 2009, Former President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering abuses by the country’s security forces
chile means end of land. it was named by the indians who once lived on this strip of land. the country is about 2,700 miles long but only 100 miles wide.
ReplyDeleteChile had to endure a 17 year military dictatorship between 1973-1990 that left more than 3000 people either dead or missing.
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Perus official language is spanish, but they also speak quechua and aymara in more remote villages. Their capitol is Lima, their climate is hot and humid in the Eastern Lowlands, hot and dry in coastal areas, and colder in the Andes. A cool fact is that Perus official name is the Republic of Peru.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.helium.com/items/1285372-information-on-peru
Bolivia:
ReplyDeleteBolivia is landlocked. Lake Titicaca is the worlds highest navigable lake. It has many minerals, but all of the good minerals have been removed/found. Most of the people are Indians- mostly subsistence farmers who live in the highlands. Bolivian farm families mainly grow potatoes, wheat, and barley. at higher elevations they herd alpacas and llamas. The children help contribute by helping herd the animals. The climate varies with altitude- from humid and tropical to cold and semiarid. The high plateau makes physical activity for nonnative-born people. The people born there have different physical characters, such as larger hearts and lungs.
Outside the book: http://www.boliviabella.com/bolivia-facts.html
Bolivia is located within one of the wettest zones on the planet. It gets over 8000 millimeters (8 meters) of rainfall per year.
Bolivia:
ReplyDeleteStraddling the border between Peru and Bolivia is the worlds highest navigable lake, Lake Titicaca. Indians make up most of Bolivia's people. They are mostly subsistent farmers who live in the highlands. Families may grow potatoes, wheat, or barley. At the higher elevations of Bolivia the people may herd alpacas and llamas. The children will contribute to family economy by helping to herd the animals. The varying climate here is from humid and tropical to cold and semiarid. Nonnative born people can find difficulty at the high plateau. This thin, cold air can make the physical activity difficult.
interesting fact: Bolivia has only 1,320 sq. km of irrigated land.
http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/facts-about-bolivia-2066.html
Ecuador gets its name from the Equator which runs through the country. One fouth if the population are Indians, 10% are Europeans, and half are mestizos. The Indians practice subsistence farming in the highlands. The Europeans own the largest farms and factories and also have the largest political influence. The mestizos work in urban factories or as tentant farmers. Because of internal migration the population is evenly distributed between the highlands and coastal lowlands. In the 1960s, they descovered oil in selva lowlands and became one of the country's most important exports.
ReplyDeleteQuechua speaking Indians and Spanish speaking meztios make up Ecuador's population. They work as subsistence farmers and as tenant farmers on plantations for bananas, cocao, and coffee. Ecuador gets its name from "the equator". An interesting fact is that Ecuador has a lot of active and inactive volcanos. http://www.10-facts-about.com/Ecuador/id/87
ReplyDeleteBolivia: Bolivia is home to lake Titicaca. It is the highest navigatable lake. Most of Bolivia's people are indians who are mostly subsustence farmers. They grow potatoes, wheat, and barley. The climate varies with altitude, from humid and tropical to cold and simiarid. Bolivia has over 30 official languages, and is also home to around 40% of all animal and plant life on Earth.
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Chile
ReplyDeleteChile means "end of land" which was named after the Indians who onece lived on this strip of land. Chile edges the west coast of South America.Tjis country is about 2,700 miles long but on average about 100 miles wide. Abvout two thirds which is approximatley 15 million people is European decent.Mmost of Chile's facotries and cities are in in Central Valley. Santiago, the capital, is home to about one third of the countries poopulation. Although Chils's economy has grown rapidly, about 3 million of its people still live below the poverty line.
http://wanttoknowit.com/interesting-facts-about-chile/
ReplyDeleteMy interesting facts about Chile.
Peru was the heart of the Inca empire. About 45% of Peru's population are Indians who speak Quechua or Aymara. Most live by subsistence farming. Some raise Alpacas or llamas in the highlands. Other Peruvians are Mestizos who live in urban areas in or near the coastal plain. In Peru , asin Ecuador a minority of people of European desert control. Peru exports cotton, sugar cane, and rice.
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ReplyDeleteperu's the heart of the incan empire. even though the incan empire was destroyed, incans still remain. peru is estimated that 45% of the population is indian and speak quechua or aymara. nearly all live by subsistence farming or herding llamas and alpacas. most all of the other peruvians are mestizo and they live in urban areas near the coastal plain. many work for low wages in factories which produce fish meal for animal feed or on plantations that export cotton, sugar cane, and rice. poverty and unemployment are a part of the character. a minority of people of european descent control most of the wealth are leaders in the government and in the army. recently, many asians have migrated to peru. president fujimori, who is japanese descent, made economic reforms and suppressed a terrorist attack. fujimori resigned from office leaving peru struggling to abolish political abuses and establish a true democratic government.
interesting fact: voting in elections is forced for all citizens ages 18 to 70.
http://wanttoknowit.com/interesting-facts-about-peru/
It was the heart of the inca empire i thought that was cool because the pretty well known across the world
ReplyDeleteDo we need to study any maps or just notes??
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