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Joseph Wampler: Mexico's 'Grand Canyon': The Region and the Story of the Tarahumara Indians and the F.C. Chihuahua al Pacifico, (Berkeley: Self-Published, 1978. ISBN 0-935080-03-1) Kennedy, J.G. (1978) Tarahumara of the Sierra Madre; Beer, Ecology and Social Organization, AHM Publishing Corp, Arlington Heights, Illinois.
The Tarahumara frog (Lithobates tarahumarae) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in Mexico and the southwestern United States, where it became regionally extinct in the early 1980s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Contributing factors include air pollution, chytridiomycosis and introduced species . [ 3 ]
Quercus tarahumara is found on the western slopes of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Its range includes the Sierra of southeastern Sonora, southwestern Chihuahua, northeastern Sinaloa, and northwestern Durango states, along with several sky island ranges lying west of the main mass of the Sierra in Sonora and Chihuahua.
Sierra Tarahumara or Tarahumara is the name for the region of the Sierra Madre beginning at the Durango border and extending north. This name comes from the Tarahumara natives. [ 6 ] This is a dramatic landscape of steep mountains formed by a high plateau that has been cut through with canyons including Copper Canyon , larger and, in places ...
The festival proceeded in a clockwise circle around the island as the image of Lono (Akua Loa, a long pole with a strip of tapa and other embellishments attached) was carried by the priests. At each ahupuaʻa (each community also is called an ahupuaʻa ) the caretakers of that community presented hoʻokupu to the Lono image, a fertility god who ...
Spam hit shelves in the mainland U.S. in 1937 during the Great Depression as an inexpensive meat product. It didn’t make its way across the Pacific to Hawaii until World War II, when Pearl ...
It is endemic to Mexico and known from the Sierra Madre Occidental between the eastern Sonora and western Chihuahua in the north and Jalisco in the south. [1] [3] Its common name is Tarahumara barking frog. [3] The type locality is Mojárachic, in the Tarahumara Mountains, Chihuahua. [2] [3]
Outside the triangle, there are traces of Polynesian settlement as far north as Necker Island (Mokumanamana), as far east as Salas y Gómez Island (Motu Motiro Hiva), and as far south as Enderby Island . Also, there have once been Polynesian settlements on Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands . By the time the Europeans first arrived, these ...