nPostednon November 1, 2015
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nInnPuno, Peru, people are celebrating their founding in 1668 by thenSpaniards. And they are doing so, in part, by re-enacting somethingnthat was supposed to have happened centuries and centuries before!!
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Thenlegendary founders of the Inca empire, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo,nare said to have risen out of Lake Titicaca (near where Puno isnlocated) with instructions from the gods to create an empire bynuniting all the various peoples living in the region.
Thenlegendary founders of the Inca empire, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo,nare said to have risen out of Lake Titicaca (near where Puno isnlocated) with instructions from the gods to create an empire bynuniting all the various peoples living in the region. n
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nIt is thisnbirth-from-the-lake that is enacted at the beginning of the week-long Puno festival.
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nSomenother festival activities include folkloric dancing and music and thendisplay and sale of crafts.
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nLearnnmore about Puno:
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nYouncan get an idea of life in Puno from this video.
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nLearnnabout Lake Titicaca:
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nThenhighest navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca is located betweennBolivia and Peru, high up in the Andes Mountains, at 12,500 feetn(3,812 m). (Navigablenmeans that the lake can be crossed with ships and boats.)
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nOnenof the special things about the lake is that it is dotted withn“islands” that were created by people! During ancient times, thenUros did not want to be taken over by the Inca, so they used reeds tonbuild floating islands so that they could live out on the lake. Thenstrategy worked: the Incas left the Uros alone. n
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nTonthis day, people continue to live on the floating islands. They makenhouses and boats and tools and fishing nets and watchtowers and evennsouvenirs to sell to tourists out of the same totora reeds that thenislands are made of!
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nChecknout this short video about the Uros’ islands.
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nLearnnabout the Incan Empire:
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nThenInca centered their empire in Peru but spread north and south alongnthe Andes mountains and the western part of South America.
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nFind outnabout their lifestyle, their inventions, and their culture bynchecking out these websites:
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nAlsonon this date: n
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nDaynof the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)
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nDaylightnSavings Time Ends
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nAntigua and Barbuda’s National Dayn
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nGive Up Your Shoulds Day
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nPrimenMeridian Day
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Continental-driftnguy / geophysicist Alfred Wegener’s birthday
Continental-driftnguy / geophysicist Alfred Wegener’s birthdayn
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