What is Peru's national tree?
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It seems to be a pretty straight-forward representation of their agri-economical strengths.\n\n"The Peruvian coat of arms consists of a shield surrounded by wreaths to symbolize the agricultural importance of Peru. Inside the shield, in the upper left-hand corner, a llama, a chichona tree and a cornucopia all symbolizing the prosperity of the country. At the bottom of the shield the wreath is connected by a bow colored with the national colors of Peru."\n\nhttp://www.special-tplus.com/peru-flag.html
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The Amazon starts in Peru near the city of Iquitos, BUT its source is several smaller rivers that have their start high up in the Peruvian Andes.  In Peru the Amazon is called "Amazonas" in Spanish.
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I would check with some resources in Peru, since Spanish and Japanese are the primary languages.
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I know the one for Brazil, but not Peru.
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Cuzco, the capital of Cuzco department in southern Peru, was the capital of the INCA empire from its beginnings in the 14th century until the Spanish conquest in 1533.\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6502/cuzco.htm
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Peru's currency is the Nuevo Sol (S/.). One Nuevo Sol is broken down into 100 céntimos (cents). Banknotes currently circulating include 200, 100, 50, 20 and 10 Nuevos Soles, while there are coins for 1, 2 and 5 Nuevos Soles and 50, 20, 10 and 5 cents.\nAs on Monday, December 19, 2005,\n1 US Dollar = 3.58040 Peruvian Nuevo Sol\n1 Peruvian Nuevo Sol (PEN) = 0.27930 US Dollar (USD)
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The Peruvian Free Trade Agreement also know as TLC for Tratado de Libre Comercio, which was recently signed, but there is quite a lot of opposition in both countries to avoid its implementation. Once implemented, 80 percent of consumer and industrial products and more than two-thirds of current U.S. farm exports to Peru would become duty-free. Many products from Peru already enter the U.S. market without duties. The agreement ensures that this status would remain unchanged.\n\nCurrent governments favor this agreement, however there are several groups in the US like Sierra Club that oppose it, as well as international groups like Oxfam.  In Peru, the winner of the first round of presidential elections, Ollanta Humala, vigorously opposes the TLC saying this agreement doesn't favor Peruvian interests and its agriculture.
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Peru's territory has an area of 1,285,216 km². It is bordered by Ecuador and Colombia on the north, Brazil and Bolivia to the east, and finally Chile and Bolivia to the south. To the west lies the Pacific Ocean. Its population has more than 24 millions of inhabitants that speak Spanish, quechua, aimara and others native languages.\n\nEastern Peru consists mostly of the moist tropical jungles of the Amazon Rain Forest, the largest on Earth. In the southeast along the border with Bolivia lies Lake Titicaca — the highest navigable lake in the world. The Altiplano plateau is a dry basin located along the slopes of the Andes in southeastern Peru. Along the border with Chile, the Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet.\n\nThe Peruvian Sea is home to a large amount and variety of fish life. The Sechura Desert is located in northwestern Peru along the Pacific coastline.\n\nThe main rivers of Peru include the Ucayali, Marañón, Amazon (which is formed by the confluence of the Marañón and the Ucayali), Putumayo, Pastaza, Napo, Jurua, and the Purus.\n\nPeru is divided in 24 departments and one constitutional province.\n\nThe largest main cities include:\n\nLima (the capital and the economic and cultural centre) \nArequipa \nTrujillo \nChiclayo \nCallao (the contitutional province) \nCusco (the capital of the ancient Inca Empire) \nPiura, Chimbote, Huancayo, Pucallpa, Cajamarca, and Iquitos.
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Well, djddan, don't know where you got your information ...\nGinkgo trees were first "discovered" by a westerner (a dutchman, in fact) growing in temples at Nagasaki, Japan, in around 1690. They are asian plants, and any of them growing anywhere in the US must be cultivated and cannot possibly date to before the Pilgrims arrived.\nThey might potentially live a long time but I don't think you can count non-native trees.
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Baobab\nThe baobabs (Adansonia), occasionally known colloquially as "monkey-bread trees", are a genus of eight species of trees, native to Madagascar (the centre of diversity, with six species), and Africa and Australia (one species in each). The species reach heights of between 5–25 m (exceptionally 30 m) tall, and up to 7 m (exceptionally 11 m) in trunk diameter. They are noted for storing water inside the swollen trunk, with the capacity to store up to 120,000 litres of water to endure the harsh drought conditions particular to each region. All occur in seasonally arid areas, and are deciduous, shedding their leaves during the dry season. Some are reputed to be many thousands of years old, though as the wood does not produce annual growth rings, this is impossible to verify; few botanists give any credence to these claims of extreme age.\n\nThe Madagascan species are important components of the Madagascar dry deciduous forests. Within that biome, A. madagascariensis and A. rubrostipa occur specifically in the Anjajavy Forest, sometimes growing out of the tsingy limestone itself.\n\nSpecies \nAdansonia digitata – African Baobab (northeastern, central & southern Africa) \nAdansonia grandidieri – Grandidier's Baobab (Madagascar) \nAdansonia gregorii (syn. A. gibbosa) – Boab or Australian Baobab (northwest Australia) \nAdansonia madagascariensis – Madagascan Baobab (Madagascar) \nAdansonia perrieri – Perrier's Baobab (Madagascar) \nAdansonia rubrostipa (syn. A. fony) – Fony Baobab (Madagascar) \nAdansonia suarezensis – Suarez Baobab (Madagascar) \nAdansonia za – Za Baobab (Madagascar) \nThe name Adansonia honours Michel Adanson, the French naturalist and explorer who described A. digitata.\n\nUses\nThe leaves are also common as a leaf vegetable throughout the area of mainland African distribution, including Malawi, Zimbabwe, and the Sahel. They are eaten both fresh and in the form of a dry powder. In Nigeria, the leaves are locally known as kuka, and are used to make kuka soup. The dry pulp of the fruit, after separation from the seeds and fibers, is eaten directly or mixed into porridge or milk. The seeds are most used as a thickener for soups, but may also be fermented into a seasoning, roasted for direct consumption, or pounded to extract vegetable oil. The tree also provides a source of fibre, dye, and fuel.\n\nThe boab was used by Indigenous Australians as a source of water and food; the leaves were used medicinally. They also painted and carved the outside of the fruits, and wore them as ornaments. A very large, hollow boab south of Derby, Western Australia was used in the 1890s as a lockup for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. The Boab Prison Tree still stands and is now a tourist attraction.\n\nCultural references\nThe baobab is the national tree of Madagascar.\n\nIn Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story The Little Prince, the Little Prince was worried that baobabs (described as "trees as big as castles") would grow on his small asteroid, take up all the space and even split it in pieces.\n\nRafiki, in The Lion King, makes his home in a baobab tree.\n\nBaobabs are also used as bonsai trees (possibly the most popular being A. digitata
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Inca Life & Achievement\n\nIn less than a century, the Incas developed and knitted together a vast empire peopled by something like twenty million Indians. They established an imperial religion in some harmony with those of their subject tribes; erected monolithic fortresses, salubrious palaces and temples; and, astonishingly, evolved a viable economy - strong enough to maintain a top-heavy elite in almost godlike grandeur. To understand these achievements and get some idea of what they must have meant in Peru five or six hundred years ago, you really have to see for yourself their surviving heritage: the stones of Inca ruins and roads; the cultural objects in the museums of Lima and Cusco; and their living descendants who still work the soil and speak Quechua - the language used by the Incas to unify their empire. We've included but the briefest of introductions to their history, society and achievements.\n\nInca society The Inca Empire rapidly developed a hierarchical structure . At the highest level it was governed by the Sapa Inca , son of the sun and direct descendant of the god Viracocha.\n\nExpansion and control\nIn Inca eyes the known world was their empire, and expansion therefore limitless. They divided their territories into four basic regions, or suyos , each radiating from the central plaza in Cusco: Chincha Suyo (northwest), Anit Suyo (northeast), Cunti Suyo (southwest) and Colla Suyo (southeast). Each suyo naturally had its own particular problems and characteristics but all were approached in the same way - initially being demoralized or forced into submission by the Inca army, later absorbed as allies for further conquests. In this way the Incas never seemed to overextend their lines to the fighting front.\n\nEconomy, agriculture and building\nThe main resources available to the Inca Empire were agricultural land and labour, mines (producing precious and prestigious metals such as gold, silver or copper), and fresh water, abundant everywhere except along the desert coast. With careful manipulation of these resources, the Incas managed to keep things moving the way they wanted. Tribute in the form of service ( mita) played a crucial role in maintaining the empire and pressurizing its subjects into ambitious building and irrigation projects. Some of these projects were so grand that they would have been impossible without the demanding whip of a totalitarian state.\n\nArts and crafts\nSurprisingly, perhaps, Inca masonry was very rarely carved or adorned in any way. Smaller stone items, however, were frequently ornate and beautiful. High technical standards were achieved, too, in pottery . Around Cusco especially, the art of creating and glazing ceramics was highly developed. They were not so advanced artistically, however; Inca designs generally lack imagination and variety, tending to have been mass-produced from models evolved by previous cultures. The most common pottery object was the aryballus, a large jar with a conical base and a wide neck thought to have been used chiefly for storing chicha. Its decoration was usually geometric, often associated with the backbone of a fish; the central spine of the pattern was adorned with rows of spikes radiating from either side. Fine plates were made with anthropomorphic handles, and large numbers of cylindrically tapering goblets - keros - were manufactured, though these were often of cedar wood rather than pottery.\n\nReligion\nThe Inca religion was easily capable of incorporating the religious features of most subjugated regions. The setting for beliefs, idols and oracles, more or less throughout the entire empire, had been preordained over the previous two thousand years: a general recognition of certain creator deities and a whole pantheon of nature-related spirits, minor deities and demons. The customary form of worship varied a little according to the locality, but everywhere they went the Incas (and later the Spanish) found the creator god among other anim
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It's a fruit tree - the Hondapara tree, or Chulta...\n\nDILLENIA INDICA L. - ELEPHANT APPLE.\n\n Synonym: dillenia speciosa.\nCommon name: chulta, hondapara tree, elephant apple.\nFamily: dilleniaceae.\n\nOriginally from Indonesia, this evergreen tropical tree is also growing in Suriname, up to 60 feet tall.\nChulta is a spreading tree and has beautiful white fragrant flowers, toothed leaves and globose fruits with small brown seeds.\nThe greenish-yellow fruit, which has a thick protective covering, is edible; unripe fruits are cooked to make pickle and chutney.\nThe juicy pulp is aromatic but very acid.
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Yes, there are. The biggest is the Amazon located in the south (share with Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia). The second biggest is known as the choco rain forest located in the northeast (Panamá border)and this rain forest is why the Panamerican road have not been finished yet.
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here in venezuela they fruit all year and the one i have in my garden produces about 50 to 70 in a year. But in the rainy zones (teh banana producing zones) they produce about 200.\nAnd technically they are neither a bush or a tree, they're a monocotiledoneus tall herb, but they have the height an the silouhete of a tree so call them banana trees and forget about all the nonsense discussion
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Interesting stuff.  I wouldn't mind if we were not alone in the universe. I found some discussion of this stuff on the internet, but if you have better sources, please post them \nThis is an article about Inca stones and the whole archeological find \nhttp://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm\nsome pictures here. about 1/4 down the page\nhttp://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/Peru/Peru.htm
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The llama is the national animal.  \nThe Cantuta (often spelled kantuta or qantuta, from Quechua qantu) is considered the National Flower of Bolivia (along with the Patujú - Heliconia rostrata - in the latter case). One variety of kantuta, the kantuta tricolor, has red and yellow petals coming from a green base, the same colors as the Bolivian flag.
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The Peruvian Free Trade Agreement also know as TLC for Tratado de Libre Comercio, which was recently signed, but there is quite a lot of opposition in both countries to avoid its implementation. Once implemented, 80 percent of consumer and industrial products and more than two-thirds of current U.S. farm exports to Peru would become duty-free. Many products from Peru already enter the U.S. market without duties. The agreement ensures that this status would remain unchanged.\n\nCurrent governments favor this agreement, however there are several groups in the US like Sierra Club that oppose it, as well as international groups like Oxfam. In Peru, the winner of the first round of presidential elections, Ollanta Humala, vigorously opposes the TLC saying this agreement doesn't favor Peruvian interests and its agriculture.