INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA HONORIO DELGADO ESPINOZA

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AREA: EnglishGRADE: 5to SECC: A-B-C-DTEACHER: Julia Aragn PachecoNAME OF THE PROJECT: Ancient Cultures of the Peruvian Amazon Jungle

The Peruvian Amazon Jungle

CHARACTERISTICS:This zone, known as "Amazonia", is considered the lung of our planet, and the Peruvian part is considered to be one of the parts of the jungle best preserved in its "virgin" state. This unspoilt state and its location in the tropics, makes the Peruvian Amazonia particularly biodiverse, holding as it does over 70% of the living species of the planet. This infinity of species of flora and fauna, many of which are not found anywhere else, live together in totally unique diversity in the Peruvian Amazonia.the Selvacovers every corner east of the Andes, from the Equator to the southern borders with Brazil and Bolivia. Peru's Amazon Rainforest sustains the World's richest biodiversity, in particularwithin the Manu, Pacaya Samiria, andTambopata natural sanctuaries.

The Chachapoyas Culturethe year of 1535, the first Spaniards arrived at the territory of the Chachapoyas, an enormous region located between the rivers Huallaga and Maran, between 2,000 and 3,000 mts. of altitude and cover permanently by clouds. From century IX, the zone was populated by an important culture, until it was invaded by the Incas in century XV, and incorporated to the Inca Empire, during the times of Tpac Inca Yupanqui. The Chachapoyas town or Sachapcollas (settler of wooded zones) was integrated by diverse compatible ethnic groups, that moved by the territory that extends from the North to the South (about 300 km), from the Maran in the zone of Bagua and the river basin of the Abiseo by the South. Some hypotheses assure, that the Chachapoyas descended culturally from Andean immigrants, who modified their ancestral culture in a new environment, taking some traditions from the settlers of amazonian origin. They transformed the jungle landscape into desert as they were depredating the forests, and as resulting from the annual burn which it was a common practice.

AMAZONAS

THE STRENGTH DE KUELAP

Located to 3.000 msnm, in you are they amazon of the department of Amazons, Kulap is test of the infinite dexterity of the chachapoya, town that he/she inhabited the area among the years 1000 and 1400 d.C. The gigantic wall that protects to the city, is composed by positions of surveillance, a turret and three narrow revenues that could be defended by a single warrior, only reach 8 meters of high and it surrounds it completely. He/she should imagine to the complex as an unreachable place to the invaders of neighboring Kingdom although finally, the Quechua of the Incan Empire, conquered to the chachapoya.The city is made of stone, but contrary to the Inca architecture, these are figured with anthropomorphic reasons and of animals. They also changed the placement pattern to achieve geometric designs.The most common housings were of base to circulate, some have been reconstructed so that the visitors, very few since Kulap is of difficult access, they can sense the life in the place, surrounded of orchids and bromelias.The integration of the old Peruvian with the nature is an astonishing lesson. The chachapoya whose secrets are kept by the thickness of the foliage, created harmony in a privileged place, a place without time where the summits of the mountains are kissed by the clouds.Source: PROMPERU

SAN MARTINIt has some magical waterfalls and The Pajaten RuinsThis Archaeological complex known as the Grand Pajaten, is an archeological beauty surrounded by legends and a reality that very few have been fortunate enough to visit and learn. This site, known as the Grand Pajaten by the American explorer Gene Savoy, has been included within the modern myth and legend as a mystical and magical place. It has also been associated with a lost city in the jungle, the myth of El Dorado, the city of gold hidden in the depths of the Amazon, that will turn rich the one who find it. The Grand Pajaten is a city in the Chachapoya civilization, and an enigma from the past because of the lack of archaeological studies to understand it.

IQUITOS

LEGEND:Iquitos, capital of Loreto was funded at 1757 and was the first fluvial port on the Amazonas river, (the largest and flowest of the world).It was habited for diversity tribe and cultural groups nomad, such us the Cocama and Bora.The Rubber Boom of the Amazon lasted roughly from the 1870"s until the early 1900"s, and the city still boasts some wonderful mansions that were built along the river during this time. Among these mansions is the Casa de Fierro, or Iron House, which Gustave Eiffel designed as an attraction at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. In case you are wondering, Gustave Eiffel, is the man who designed the Eiffel Tower. The Iron House he created was sent unassembled to Iquitos, where it was built on its present-day site. As rubber tree seeds began to be smuggled and planted outside of the country, the Iquitos rubber boom began its decline, and the aforementioned industries started to prevail. Iquitos Amazon tourism is on the rise, and it now figures among the primary industries sustaining the city.