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Category: Region: South America

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021decolonialatlas

Precolonial Cities and Villages of Abya Yala

November 19, 2017November 25, 2017decolonialatlas

Surreal Images of Earth from Space

June 2, 2017June 2, 2017decolonialatlas

How America Got Its Name

April 18, 2017February 9, 2019decolonialatlas

Colorful River Basin Maps

June 15, 2015May 8, 2017decolonialatlas

Place Name Etymology in Western Hemisphere

February 11, 2015February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

Quechua Country

February 2, 2015February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

Taino Names of the Caribbean Islands

December 1, 2014February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

The World in Guarani

November 27, 2014February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

Taino and Island Carib Territories

November 11, 2014February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

South America in Quechua

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If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half.
Islands are home to 11% of the world’s population. There are 148 million people on Java alone - the world’s most populous island and the third most populous landmass after Afro-Eurasia and the American continent.
Biden has been in office for a year. As promised, nothing has fundamentally changed.
Never heard of it. You must be lost.
The volcanic eruption in Tonga has snapped the 872km long fibre-optic cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world. The cable system was not switched off or disconnected by the authorities.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
0.006%. That's how much of the world's water is its lakes and rivers.
Leaf size varies by over a 100,000-fold among species worldwide. Large-leaved species predominate in wet, hot, sunny environments; small-leaved species typify hot, sunny environments only in arid conditions; small leaves are also found in high latitudes and elevations. Daytime and nighttime leaf-to-air temperature differences are key to geographic gradients in leaf size.
BNSF workers have gone 3 years without a pay raise, and only get one weekend day off, while @bnsfrailway has been making record profits since the start of the pandemic. After years of failed negotiations, @smartunionworks has decided enough is enough - time to strike.
Given the open border agreements that already exist across 68 countries, maybe a world of free movement isn't as fanciful as you'd think.
5.2 million people in the US cannot exercise their constitutional right to vote because of a prior conviction.
Fifty percent of the lowland Borneo rain forest, which once covered all of the island up to 10,000 feet, is gone, but it’s still the third-largest in the world, after the Amazon and Equatorial Africa’s. It is part of the most ancient rain forest— forest, period— on earth: 130 million years old, more than twice as old as the Amazon’s.
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