Travel to South America

The Yanomami

The Yanomami are an indigenous people of Brazil and Venezuela, who live in the northwest Amazon Rainforest. They have lived in this area for thousands of years, in villages formed by a circular house called shabono or yano. Their way of life is completely based on the forest; cultivation, banana growing, fishing, fruit gathering and animal hunting, always treating the forest with respect and moving to avoid the overuse of an area. The social organization has no ranks, they don't have leaders and believe in sharing and equality. Back in 1950, the Yanomami population suffered a great devastation for the Europeans, and in the 1970's more than half of the total population perished due to diseases brought by the white men.

Amazonia

The Amazonia encompasses 1.2 billion acres, within 8 countries, Brazil with the 60%, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and the French Guiana. It represents more than half of the planet's remaining raining forests and has the largest and richest variety of species, in fauna and flora, of the world. The biodiversity is really outstanding, even the biodiversity in the Wet Forests of Africa can't match the Amazonia. Right now, this awesome place, is suffering a massive deforestation, and a great deal of actions are being taken by the ecologists and nature defenders.

Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the south of South America and is separated from the mainland by the Magellan Strait. It is divided between Argentina and Chile since 1881, being the eastern part Argentinian territory and the western part (Magallanes province) Chilean territory.
The main towns are Rio Grande and Ushuaia on the Argentinian side, and Porvenir, Puerto Williams and Cape Horn on the Chilean side.  Tierra del Fuego means "Land of Fire" and got its name from Ferdinand Magellan, who was passing by the archipelago back in 1520 and spotted fires burning along the coastline. The fires were made by the aboriginal inhabitants of the islands.