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Second largest river archipelago in the world, the Anavilhanas are an imense set of more than 400 islands and channels near the city of Manaus, in the Amazon rainforest.
The complete genome has recently been sequenced from 4 year old Russian boy who died 24,000 years ago near Lake Baikal in a location called Mal’ta, the area in Asia believed to be the origin of the Native Americans based on Y DNA and mitochondrial chromosome similarities. The map below, from Science News, shows the location.
Laterza Ravine is part of a system of ravine that spans the whole Southwestern Apulia and the Southeastern Basilicata. The Laterza Ravine is the largest of these ones being 200 meters deep and 12 kms long being the second largest ravine or canyon in the whole of Europe.
These places are also known for having several cave dwellings and churches dating to the middle ages and which got used until the early 20th century. Houses were built directly in the rocks. I will show a pic tomorrow evening
To continue, here's one of those churches directly excavated in the rock, this one is found in the midst of the Saint Mark's ravine and is easily the most impressive one from the outside.
For once, i'll bend the rules just so we can end this chapter here (also because i haven't posted any pic yesterday). This churches and dwellings are remarkable because of their frescoes dating back to Byzantine times. This is one of such frescoes:
It's estimated that such churches are as many as a hundred and that several of them are yet to be explorated due to their remoteness
Ukrainians immigrated to Canada in the 19th century. Their influence is still felt today, mainly in the prairie provinces. Many, many churches still dot the landscape, some still in use, many abandoned. This church is in Saskatchewan.
My state of Washington is known for its beautiful lush forests and rugged mountains, but more than half the state is very dry and criss crossed by coulees that were carved out during devastating floods during the ice age. This particular one is called frenchman coulee
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Anavilhanas' Archipelago
