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Tarka (flute). Kids playing the tarka. The tarka (Quechua, Aymara: tharqa) is an indigenous flute of the Andes.Usually made of wood, it has 6 finger holes, fipple on mouth end and free hole on distant end.
The "nut" is covered with pericarp, which gets removed by animals. The kernel is covered with a brown, flaky skin and shaped like a small avocado , roughly 4–8 cm in diameter. The male plants produce catkins up to three feet (0.9 meter) in length of male flowers, each bearing up to one thousand stamens , [ 7 ] the greatest number of any Monocot .
Andean cock-of-the-rock, Peru's national bird. Peru's national bird is the Andean cock-of-the-rock. Peru has over 1,800 species of birds, the second-highest number of any country in the world. New species of birds are still being discovered and cataloged by scientists. 42 species from Peru have been officially added to science in the last 30 years.
In this video a tiny, white-bellied caique is seen carefully slipping tiny glass ornaments onto a small glass Christmas tree. It’s too cute, a really testament to how gentle and careful (and ...
Pedro Jarque Krebs (born 1963) [1] is a Peruvian wildlife photographer, best known for his darkly ambianced, studio- quality close-up portraits of beasts, large birds, and other wild animals. [2] [3] [4] He has won photography awards including Sony World Photography Awards, SipaContest, IPA, and Px3. [5] Jarque was born in Lima. His Spanish ...
With Christmas approaching, Molly was determined to create a one-of-a-kind gift: a superhero-themed dream house, after seeing he was tired of playing with his sister's.
The holiday season, especially Christmas, is a time of year when enthusiasm is encouraged, even praised. This year is no exception, with people all over the country pulling out all the stops to ...
Schinus molle is native to the arid zone of northern South America and Peru's Andean deserts, extending to central Argentina and central Chile. [6] It has, however, become widely naturalized around the world. It is known for its strong wood used for saddles, and was one of the Spanish colonies' supply sources for saddles.