Five presidents in two weeks
During the December 2001 riots in Argentina, the country went through five presidents in just two weeks.
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During the December 2001 riots in Argentina, the country went through five presidents in just two weeks.
The Man of the Hole is an indigenous man living alone in the Amazon rainforest. Authorities believe that he is the last survivor of a tribe otherwise wiped out by illegal loggers.
By tradition, the president of Argentina is godparent to all seventh sons and seventh daughters born in the country; in Belgium, the seventh children are named after the reigning monarch, and that monarch also becomes their godparent.
Within the extraordinary biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest lie circles of a single tree species – the devil’s gardens. And these pockets of uniformity are created by ants.
According to animal breeders you should avoid bottle-feeding baby llamas, because when they grow up they might go berserk.
The Salt Cathedral lies 200 metres below the surface of Zipaquirá, Colombia.
Gruta Casa de Pedra in Brazil has the largest cave mouth in the world – it is higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. But the largest cave chamber in the world is larger still.
By discharge volume, the Amazon and the Orinoco are the largest and fourth largest rivers in the world. The Casiquiare River in Venezuela connects them.
The summit of Chimborazo, a volcano in Ecuador, is two kilometres farther from the Earth’s centre than Mount Everest.
According to Las Cabañuelas lore, you can predict the weather for the whole year based on the weather of each day in January.
El Hombre Caimán is a popular Colombian myth about a man who is half man, half alligator – the result of an accident while peeping on bathing women.
You can drive from northern Alaska all the way to Tierra Del Fuego in southern Argentina… except for a 106km gap in the road between the two.
Before you move into Villa Las Estrellas you must have your appendix removed.
The rise of the Andes reversed the direction of the Amazon River’s flow from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
In 1987 the tomb of Argentinian president Juan Perón was broken into and his hands dismembered and stolen. A ransom note was received but never paid, and the hands were never seen again.
What do bullet ants and guarana have in common? The Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil.