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Kaieteur Falls plunges 226 metres in one drop, roughly five times the height of Niagara, with almost no crowds.
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Kaieteur, Guyana · The Americas
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Suriname is the only South American country with Dutch as its official language, a legacy of colonial rule.
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Suriname · The Americas
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Ecuador is the only country named for a line of latitude, and the true equator sits slightly off the famous monument.
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Ecuador · The Americas
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Because the Earth bulges at the equator, Chimborazo's summit is the furthest point from the planet's centre.
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Chimborazo, Ecuador · The Americas
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Darwin's finches, each with a beak suited to different food, helped shape the theory of natural selection.
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Galapagos, Ecuador · The Americas
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Quito sits almost exactly on the equator at 2,850 metres, giving it spring-like weather all year.
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Quito, Ecuador · The Americas
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Peru cultivates over 3,000 potato varieties, and the potato was domesticated in the Andes around 8,000 years ago.
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Peru · The Americas
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The Spanish never located Machu Picchu, which is why its stonework and terraces survived largely intact.
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Machu Picchu, Peru · The Americas
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Inca masonry fits without mortar and is designed to shift and resettle during earthquakes rather than crack.
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Cusco, Peru · The Americas
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Some Nazca figures stretch 370 metres and were only fully appreciated once aircraft flew over the desert.
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Nazca, Peru · The Americas
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The striped mineral colours of Vinicunca were revealed only recently as the glacier covering it retreated.
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Vinicunca, Peru · The Americas
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Sucre is the constitutional capital while La Paz holds the government, making La Paz the highest seat of government on Earth.
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Bolivia · The Americas
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When a thin layer of water covers the salt flat, it reflects the sky so precisely the horizon disappears.
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Uyuni, Bolivia · The Americas
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Beneath the Uyuni salt flat lies one of the largest lithium deposits on the planet.
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Uyuni, Bolivia · The Americas
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The Uros build and maintain islands from layered totora reeds, adding fresh reeds every few weeks.
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Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia · The Americas
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Chile stretches from desert to glacier over 4,300 kilometres but averages only about 180 kilometres wide.
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Chile · The Americas
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Some Atacama weather stations have never recorded rain, and NASA tests Mars equipment there.
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Atacama, Chile · The Americas
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Dry air and high altitude make the Atacama the best place on Earth for optical astronomy, hosting major observatories.
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Atacama, Chile · The Americas
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Excavations showed the famous moai heads sit on full buried torsos covered in carvings.
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Rapa Nui, Chile · The Americas
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Only Antarctica and Greenland hold more ice than the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
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Patagonia · The Americas
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This glacier is one of the few in the world that is broadly stable, periodically damming a lake until the ice arch collapses.
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Perito Moreno, Argentina · The Americas
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Avenida 9 de Julio spans about 110 metres, and crossing it can take more than one traffic light.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina · The Americas
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Tango emerged in the working-class port neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the late 19th century.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina · The Americas
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At 6,961 metres, Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in both the Southern and Western hemispheres.
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Aconcagua, Argentina · The Americas
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