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Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes rather than counties, a leftover from its French and Spanish past.
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Louisiana, USA · The Americas
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High groundwater made underground burial impractical, so the city built tombs above ground in walled cemeteries.
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New Orleans, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): New York City ↗
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The United States paid Russia 7.2 million dollars for Alaska in 1867, mocked at the time as Seward's Folly.
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Alaska, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Miss Alaska USA ↗
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Built on a drained lakebed, Mexico City sinks several centimetres a year as groundwater is pumped out.
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Mexico City, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral ↗
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Alongside Spanish, Mexico officially recognises 68 indigenous languages with hundreds of variants.
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Mexico · The Americas
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At the equinoxes, shadows on the pyramid's staircase form a serpent that appears to slide down to the ground.
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Chichen Itza, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Chichen Itza ↗
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Thousands of cenotes dot the Yucatan, formed along a ring of fractures linked to the asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs.
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Yucatan, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Yucatán, Mexico ↗
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Cacao was drunk bitter and spiced by the Maya and Aztecs long before Europeans added sugar and milk.
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Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mexico ↗
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Monarchs fly from Canada to a few Mexican mountain forests, and no single butterfly completes the round trip.
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Michoacan, Mexico · The Americas
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Atitlan fills a caldera left by a colossal eruption 84,000 years ago and is ringed by three volcanoes.
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Lake Atitlan, Guatemala · The Americas
External reference (site language): Lake Atitlán ↗
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The Belize Barrier Reef is the largest in the northern hemisphere and includes the famous Great Blue Hole.
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Belize · The Americas
External reference (site language): Belize Barrier Reef ↗
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Copan's hieroglyphic stairway carries the longest known Maya text, over 2,000 glyphs on 63 steps.
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Copan, Honduras · The Americas
External reference (site language): Honduras ↗
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Punta Roca near La Libertad delivers one of Central America's most consistent right-hand point breaks.
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El Tunco, El Salvador · The Americas
External reference (site language): El Salvador ↗
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Ometepe sits in a freshwater lake and is formed by two volcanoes joined by a low isthmus.
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Ometepe, Nicaragua · The Americas
External reference (site language): Ometepe ↗
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Costa Rica dissolved its military in 1948 and redirected the budget to education and health.
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Costa Rica · The Americas
External reference (site language): History of Costa Rica ↗
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For years Costa Rica has generated close to 99 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly hydro and geothermal.
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Costa Rica · The Americas
External reference (site language): Conservation in Costa Rica ↗
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Every ship transit releases millions of litres of fresh lake water to the sea, which is why droughts slow the canal.
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Panama · The Americas
External reference (site language): Panama Canal ↗
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Because of the isthmus's S-shape, you can watch the sun rise over the Pacific and set over the Atlantic in Panama.
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Panama City, Panama · The Americas
External reference (site language): Panama City ↗
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Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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Colombia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Geography of Colombia ↗
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Colombian mines have long supplied the majority of the world's fine emeralds, prized for their deep green.
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Boyaca, Colombia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Economy of Colombia ↗
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Ciclovia shuts over 100 kilometres of road to cars every Sunday, and hundreds of thousands of people cycle and skate.
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Bogota, Colombia · The Americas
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An aquatic plant turns Cano Cristales red for a few months a year, mixing with green moss and yellow sand.
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Cano Cristales, Colombia · The Americas
External reference (site language): Caño Cristales ↗
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Angel Falls drops 979 metres, so far that much of the water becomes mist before reaching the bottom.
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Angel Falls, Venezuela · The Americas
External reference (site language): Angel Falls ↗
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Where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo, storms produce lightning on around 300 nights a year.
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Catatumbo, Venezuela · The Americas
External reference (site language): Catatumbo lightning ↗
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