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 * Colombia**


 * Cartagena Population: 44,379,598**

Weather:hot, sun boiling, a cool wind, humid.

Even though Colombia no longer has untold resources, and minerals, it still isnt very developed. The median age isnt even 30 years yet. Colombia is urban though-74% of the population lives in the cities. Everywhere you turn there are brightly colored bulidings and houses, and tall buildings with black and red tiled roofs. There are also many ancient churchs. The house's and old churchs are very well preserved. They still have the same bright colors and carvings as they did many years before.

The beautiful city of Cartagena includes a lagoon to get to the city since it cannot be reached by land. the lagoon is the entrances to the sea by Drake's spit and Tierra Bomba Islands. Cartagena can be seen from 8 miles away because of its tall green hills, towers, red colored roofs and how bright the city gets at night. The weather is hot. The sun is boiling but there's a cool wind. Its nice to take a good swim in the lagoon. Its humid here most of the time. Ancient church The city at night


 * Peru and Bolivia

jnhmCallao Population: 29,546,963** La Paz Population: 9,119,152 Cusco Population: 29,546,963 Arequipa Population: 29,546,963**
 * Lima Population: 29,546,963

Weather: Humid, wuth a good breeze

There is no vegetation as the mountains go higher expect for some dark brown cacti. The hills at first were brown and bare with a few cacti every once and awhile. At some level sports there is cotton growing where mountain streams irrigated the ground. As you climb and climb, more and more vegetation is there and the cacti are greener and healthier. There are even larger cacti areas in the valley. everything was so colorful.

Peru has some very cool sport sot see like the old gold mines. Also some places in Callao are still destroyed from the earthquake and tidal wave in 1764, some things just couldnt be restored.

Pizarro is the founder of Lima and Lima was founded over 450 years ago. Along the streets of Lima there are many vendors selling a varity of different things that range from food to clothes to books. Lima is the home of many different flowers and fruits, some known and some unknown. The old building known as The Paseo Colon is a boulevard that is over one half-mile long and over 150 feet wide. Its lined with many residences. It also has a garden in the middle thats been there for years and a ancient statue of Columbus. The University of San Marco is the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. It dates back to 1551 and is still standing today. The Andes Mountain range is also located through Lima. So is the Rimac Valley which is a very intersting place. It goes through sub-tropical banana groves, sugar cane fields, the Inca ruins, the mountainous wilderness of the Rimac canyon, (the foaming rivers and high cliffs are amazing). When climbing the Andes in Cusco you see where the black rocks change to yellow sand-dunes. The ciry was founded in 1540 by an Indian settlement. The climate is a little weird in Cusco beacuse its so high above sea level. During the day it can be hot and humid and by night it can feel like fall.

Univ. of San Marco Rimac Canyon Andes Mountains

Lake Titicaca never freezes it may be beacuse its over 12,000 feet above sea level or maybe other unknown reasons. Lake Titicaca is the highest steamboat navigation around. Lake Titicaca

La Paz is the highest city. There are llamas everywhere, they have a big part in everyday work. They help carry ice from the glaciers in the Winter and fuel or merchandise to other parts of the city and other small villages in every season. The Aymara Indians used to form 90% of the countries population so there's many carvings and paintings from them left behind.