Helena Horton, The Guardian: Leaves of species grown at Kew Gardens can reach up to three metres in the wild A giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century. Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades…
Tag: Bolivian heritage
From adornment to figure of power: the evolution of the chola in the morenada | De adorno a figura de poder: la evolución de la chola en la morenada
Jorge Soruco, Página Siete: FOR THE GRAN PODER, UNIQUE LUXURY OUTFITS ARE PREPARED BY TROUPES Starting in the 1970s, female characters gained strength in heavy dance. First with the china women who highlighted their sensuality and later with the authority and economic strength of the skirt. “Of course, to dance they have to ask us…
Pre-Columbian City | Ciudad precolombina
Archaeology: Pre-Columbian City in Bolivia Investigated With Airborne Lasers BONN, GERMANY—A pre-Columbian landscape inhabited by the people of the Casarabe culture between A.D. 500 and 1400 has been mapped in Bolivia’s Amazon rain forest by archaeologist Heiko Prümers of the German Archaeological Institute and his colleagues, according to a Science News report. Prümers said that the lidar…
The Moxos Ensemble returns to tours on European soil | El Ensamble Moxos retorna a las giras por suelo europeo
El Deber: El recorrido comprende ciudades de España y Francia | The tour includes cities in Spain and France The Bolivian group will begin this Friday a cultural exchange tour through several European cities in which they will promote their new album called Majara’iwa Three years have passed since the Moxos Ensemble’s last concerts abroad…
Bolivia: pre-Columbian ceramics | cerámica precolombina
ANF, Los Tiempos: Una de las piezas de cerámica precolombina. | One of the pre-Columbian pottery pieces. | RRSS The US returns 22 pieces of pre-Columbian ceramics belonging to the cultural heritage of Bolivia The Embassy of the United States in Bolivia has made the official return of 22 pieces of pre-Columbian ceramics to the…
San Pedro de Macha, Potosí: Festival of the Cross | Fiesta de la Cruz
Los Tiempos: La Fiesta de la Cruz en el Municipio San Pedro de Macha, Potosí. | The Feast of the Cross in the Municipality of San Pedro de Macha, Potosí. | APG Los comunarios combaten con el fin de alimentar con su sangre a la Pachamama. | The community members fight in order to feed…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 