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[permaculture] Waru waru raised beds | Nasca puquios aqueducts | Terraced amphitheaters
- From: Steve Diver <steved@ncat.org>
- To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [permaculture] Waru waru raised beds | Nasca puquios aqueducts | Terraced amphitheaters
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:36:37 -0600
Following the Andean roots and tubers information leads
to:
"The Consortium for the Sustainable Development of Andean
Ecorregion" (CONDESAN)
http://www.condesan.org/principalcondesan-en.htm
Following to Picture Gallery ...
http://www.condesan.org/portafolio.htm
... leads to images of the waru waru raised beds
... and to Nasca puquios, geoglypphs & subterranean aqueducts
... the Nasca puquios lead, further, to terraced amphitheaters
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Waru Waru resources
"Source Book of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater
Augmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean"
UNEP - International Environmental Technology Centre
United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.oas.org/usde/publications/Unit/oea59e/begin.htm
See:
4.1 Raised beds and waru waru cultivation
Also see:
1. Freshwater augmentation technologies
5.2 Fog harvesting in Chile
BGMS-E1: Case study "The Waru Waru, an alternative technology
http://www.mtnforum.org/emaildiscuss/discuss02/040802403.htm
The Lost Art of the Waru Waru
http://fadr.msu.ru/rodale/agsieve/txt/vol1/2/art6.html
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Nasca Puquios | Nasca Line | Geoglyph resources
The Water Lines of Nazca
http://www.rumbosperu.com/articles/11-50-nazca.htm
The province of Nazca on PerĂº's south coast is a severely arid
region, watered only by scattered river valleys.
...subterranean aqueducts, known locally as puquios
The Nasca Lines Project
Donald A. Proulx, Professor of Anthropology
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~proulx/Nasca_Lines_Project.html
The Lines of NASCA, David Johnson's Hypothesis
http://www.eggi.com/ken/peru/hypothesis.htm
The Nasca Lines Solution: Demystifying South America's Gigantic
Archaeological Puzzle
By Jack McClintock
DISCOVER Vol. 21 No. 12 (December 2000)
http://www.discover.com/dec_00/featnasca.html
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Terraced amphitheaters resources
Defending Against Frost, The American Way: Past
& Present || A Photo Gallery By Kashyapa A. S. Yapa
http://kyapa.tripod.com/agengineering/thermalcontrol/thermal.htm
Landscape transformations, produced by ancient communities,
to combat frost attacks on agricultural fields.
CONTENTS:
Ridged fields - cayambe/titicaca
Qochas - llallagua
Terraces - moray/saraguro/titcaca
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Regards,
Steve Diver
- [permaculture] Waru waru raised beds | Nasca puquios aqueducts | Terraced amphitheaters, Steve Diver, 03/28/2003
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