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Obviously none of these people live in actual "hot steamy jungles", but totally urbanized cities, which I guess it is clear for everyone. However, if we count cities and towns built on areas which used to be tropical rainforests or that have the typical "hot steamy jungle" climate, the list must be expanded, and the amount of total population is much larger. You must count, for instance, big cities like Salvador, Fortaleza, Recife... even Rio de Janeiro may be considered. The place was once part of the Atlantic forest and has a fully tropical climate. I know there are awful stereotypes everywhere that are often enhanced and ridiculed, but it's not like the wet tropical environments are secondary in South America. It's just that there are still many other natural environments and climates that are also widespread.
Not really, I take your point about Salvador, Fortaleza and Recife; Rio being borderline. However, this may be common in Brazil but its not really all that common in the rest of South America. Just because Europe and most American states have decimated practically all their forests, especially around urban areas, doesn't mean that as soon as they see green they automatically think jungle.
I've seen tourists be in towns and cities in the Andes surrounded by Colombian Oak, Rosemary Pine and Laso Pine forests and say "what a beautiful jungle but it doesn't look like the jungle I envisioned" - it's quite funny. You get this a lot from Argentinian travellers also who are also in the top 10 of most deforested countries on the planet.
It's kind of ironic, because New York is the quintessential American city and the headquarters of the world.
It is Ironic because it is the only American city of it's kind. To me, quintessential suggests the more typical or perfect example. Unless San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and San Diego are more like NYC than they are not, I would say those are the quintessential American cities.
It is Ironic because it is the only American city of it's kind. To me, quintessential suggests the more typical or perfect example. Unless San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and San Diego are more like NYC than they are not, I would say those are the quintessential American cities.
Ok well how about show us a street view image of something in NYC that can not be found anywhere else in the US.
to show proof, so far everyone is just shouting out facts with out any proof, if you show me a place in NYC that I won't be able to find anything remotely similar in any other city then I will agree that NYC is the MOST out of place city in the US. And why google streetview, well so that I know where the photo was taken and so I know there was no photo shop involved.
A lot of people from Bogota and the Cundi-Boyacense Andean plateau are of largely British & Irish ancestry more-so even than Spanish ancestry on their European half. This comes from the near 10,000 British & Irish mercenaries that fought for Colombian independence from Spain in the early 1800's. This is another factor that separates Bogota and the Cundi-Boyacense plateau from the rest of Colombia.
Some pictures of the British-style quarters of Bogota...
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