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Breathing Bridge
A breathing bridge is a type of living root bridge handmade from the aerial roots of banyan trees from the region of Amazonas (Peru). For centuries, Nukak Makú indigenous tribes have been training the roots of these trees to cross streams that spontaneously appear during the wet season. They first grow the trees along the river banks and after ten years when the roots are big enough they start assembling the bridge. Such a long-term project cannot be completed in a lifetime, so the knowledge is passed over generations. Some of these bridges will live for 500 years spanning over 100 feet (30 meters). SILVERWOOD-COPE, Peter L. 1990: Os makú, povo caçador do nordeste da Amazônia. Editora Universidade de Brasília.- See also *Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge is a living root bridge in Meghalaya, India. It can be reached via trekking , or 6500 steps, from Cherrapunji. There is also a waterfall nearby. Due to tourism, the health of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Root Bridge
Living root bridges are a kind of tree shaping in which rivers are spanned by bridges formed out of the roots of ficus plants. Due to their being made from living, growing trees, they "show a very wide variety of structural typologies, with various aspects of particular bridges resembling characteristics of suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, arches, trusses, and simply-supported beams." They are common in the Indian state of Meghalaya. The structures are handmade from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees (''Ficus elastica'') by the Khasi and Jaiñtia peoples of the mountainous terrain along the southern part of the Shillong Plateau. Most of the bridges grow on steep slopes of subtropical moist broadleaf forest between above sea level. As long as the tree from which it is formed remains healthy, the roots in the bridge can naturally grow thick and strengthen. New roots can grow throughout the tree's life and must be pruned or manipulated to strengthen the bridge. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banyan Tree
A banyan, also spelled banian ( ), is a Ficus, fig that develops accessory trunks from Aerial root#"Stranglers" (prop-root), adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a Strangler Fig, strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice. "Banyan" often specifically denotes ''Ficus benghalensis'' (the "Indian banyan"), which is the national tree of India, though the name has also been generalized to denominate all figs that share a common life cycle and used systematics, systematically in Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy to denominate the subgenus ''Ficus#Subgenus Urostigma, Urostigma''. Characteristics Like other fig species, banyans also bear their fruit in the form of a structure called a "syconium". The syconium of ''Ficus'' species supply shelter and food for fig wasps and the trees depen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazonas (Peruvian Department)
Amazonas () is a department and Regional Government of Amazonas, region in northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Department of Cajamarca, Cajamarca on the west, Department of La Libertad, La Libertad on the south, and Department of Loreto, Loreto and Department of San Martín, San Martín on the east. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas, Peru, Chachapoyas. With a landscape of steep river gorges and mountains, Amazonas is the location of Kuelap, a huge stone fortress enclosing more than 400 stone structures; it was built on a mountain about 3,000 meters high, starting about 500 AD and was occupied to the mid-16th century. It is one of Peru's major archeological sites. Geography The department of Amazonas consists of regions covered by rainforests and mountain ranges. The rainforest zone predominates (72.93%) and it extends to the north over its oriental slope, up to the border with Ecuador in the summits of the Cordillera del Cóndor. The mountain range zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nukak People
The Nukak people (also Nukak- Makú) live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture.Mondragón, Héctor 1994 "La defensa del territorio Nukak" en Antropología y derechos Humanos. Memorias del VI Congreso de Antropología en Colombia. Carlos Vladimir Zambrano editor. Universidad de los Andes, p.p. 139 a 155. Bogotá D.C.- They were classified as an "uncontacted people" until 1981, and have since lost half of their population primarily to disease. Part of their territory has been used by coca growers, ranchers, and other settlers, as well as being occupied by guerrillas, army and paramilitaries. Responses to this crisis of land loss have included protests, requests for assimilation, and the suicide of leader Maw-be'. An estimated 210–250 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge
Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge is a living root bridge in Meghalaya, India. It can be reached via trekking , or 6500 steps, from Cherrapunji. There is also a waterfall nearby. Due to tourism, the health of the root bridge has degraded. Meghalaya presented the root bridge at its 70th Republic Day (India), Republic Day ceremony. A replica of the bridge has been made in Nongriat in Cherrapunji to present the Khasi people, Khasi and Pnar people, Jaiñtia peoples' craft of building bridges from the secondary roots of trees. These living bridges are grown from a special type of rubber tree. As the roots grow, so the strength of the bridge increases. The root bridges are honoured as the Tajmahal of Meghalaya. They take around 25 years to grow and operate, but can carry the weight of 50 people and go on functioning for 500 years. See also * Breathing bridge References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trestle Bridges
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames usually carrying a railroad line. A trestle support, trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a Plank (wood), plank or beam (structure), beam such as the support structure for a trestle table. Each supporting frame is a bent (structural), bent. A trestle differs from a viaduct in that viaducts have towers that support much longer spans and typically have a higher elevation. Timber and iron trestles (i.e. bridges) were extensively used in the 19th century, the former making up from 1 to 3 percent of the total length of the average railroad. In the 21st century, steel and sometimes concrete trestles are commonly used to bridge particularly deep valleys, while timber trestles remain common in certain areas. Many timber trestles were built in the 19th and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazonas Region
Amazonas may refer to: Places * Amazon River, known as ''Amazonas'' in Spanish and Portuguese *Amazonas (Brazilian state), Brazil *Amazonas (Colombian department), Colombia *Amazonas (Peruvian department), Peru *Amazonas (Venezuelan state), Venezuela Other uses * Amazonas Futebol Clube, an association football (soccer) club from Manaus, Brazil * ''Amazonas'' (film), or ''Massacre in Dinosaur Valley'', a 1985 Italian-Brazilian cannibal film See also *Amazon (other) *Amazon basin *Amazon rainforest *Amazonas Province (other) *Amazonas State (other) Amazonas State may refer to: * Amazonas State (Brazil) * Amazonas State (Venezuela) See also * Amazonas (other) Amazonas may refer to: Places * Amazon River, known as ''Amazonas'' in Spanish and Portuguese *Amazonas (Brazilian state ... * Amazonas Department (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Culture Of South America
Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse * ''Indigenous'' (film), Australian, 2016 See also *Indigenous Australians *Indigenous language *Indigenous peoples in Canada *Indigenous religion *Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women are instances of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, notably those in the First Nations in Canada and Native American communities, but also amongst other Indigenous peoples s ... * Native (other) * * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
