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Pirogues of Madagascar Pirogues, Niger A pirogue on the Niger River in Mali Statuette Karajà - Brazil - MHNT. A pirogue (/ p ɪ ˈ r oʊ ɡ / or / ˈ p iː r oʊ ɡ /), [1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which ...
One of the canoes displayed in the Carnavalet Museum Dugout canoe displayed in the Carnavalet Museum. The Pirogues de Bercy are a group of dugout canoes (or fragments of canoes) dating from the Neolithic period that were discovered in 1989 during construction work in the 12th arrondissement, a neighbourhood located in southeastern Paris.
Ojo de Agua Dam (Spanish: Presa Ojo de Agua) is a dam located southeast of the town of El Tepehuaje de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico. It is the apparently largest dam in the municipality of San Martín de Hidalgo. [1]
De Administrando Imperio details how the Slavs built monoxyla that they sold to Rus' in Kiev. [17] These boats were then used against the Byzantine Empire during the Rus'–Byzantine Wars of the 9th and 10th centuries. They used dugouts to attack Constantinople and to withdraw into their lands with bewildering speed and mobility.
18th century half galley or periagua. Periagua (from Spanish piragua, in turn derived from the Carib language word for dugout) is the term formerly used in the Caribbean and the eastern seaboard of North America for a range of small craft including canoes and small sailing vessels.
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Salto de Agua is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 57,253, [ 1 ] up from 49,300 as of 2005. [ 2 ] It covers an area of 1289.2 km 2 .