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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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We knelt on the sand with torches pointed up. Plankton gathered in the light and the mantas came to eat, rolling over us, close enough to feel the water move.
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Kona, Hawaii · The Americas
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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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The road ended in black rock that had not been there two years before. A sign asked us not to take any lava home, which is apparently both disrespectful and unlucky.
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Big Island, Hawaii · The Americas
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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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It snowed in June. We pulled into a viewpoint, three other cars did the same, and six strangers stood in a line watching a glacier disappear behind cloud without saying anything.
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Alberta, Canada · The Americas
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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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We were told to make noise. After two hours of singing badly we stopped, and thirty seconds later a black bear crossed the trail ahead. We resumed singing immediately.
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British Columbia, Canada · The Americas
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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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We walked on the sea floor in the morning and kayaked over the same spot after lunch. Sixteen metres of water arrived while we ate.
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Bay of Fundy, Canada · 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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Minus twenty outside and a queue out the door. The man in front of us explained that the cheese must squeak, and that anything else is not poutine but a tragedy.
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Montreal, Canada · The Americas
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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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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
External reference (site language): Kaieteur Falls ↗
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The driver pulled over without warning and turned off the headlights. Green went across the whole sky in about four seconds and then rearranged itself for an hour.
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Yukon, Canada · 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
External reference (site language): Suriname ↗
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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