URUBAMBA

ooroobämˈbä, river, c.450 mi (720 km) long, rising in the Andes Mts., S Peru, and flowing generally north to join the Apurímac River to form the Ucayali. The Urubamba is extensively used for irrigation, and its valley is heavily populated; Cuzco, Peru, is located there. High above the Urubamba's gorge are the ruins of the terraced Inca city of Machu Picchu.

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books on: Urubamba  - 97 results

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1.
Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia
Book by Peter Gow; Clarendon Press, 1991
Subjects: Indians Of South America--Kinship--Peru--Urubamba River Valley, Indians Of South America--Land Tenure--Peru--Urubamba River Valley, Indians Of South America--Mixed Descent--Peru--Urubamba River Valley, Urubamba River Valley (Peru)--Economic Conditions, Urubamba River Valley (Peru)--Social Conditions
...index . 1. Indians of South America--Peru--Urubamba River Valley--Mixed descent. 2. Indians of South America--Peru--Urubamba River Valley-- Kinship. 3. Indians of South America--Peru--Urubamba River Valley-- Land tenure. 4. Urubamba River...
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The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian
Book by Isaiah Bowman; American Geographical Society, 1916
Subjects: Geology--Andes, Human Geography--Peru, Peru--Description And Travel, Physical Geography--Peru, Yale Peruvian Expedition--(1911)
...from the tropical plains of the lower Urubamba southward over lofty snow-covered passes...Baxter Lanius, my assistant on the lower Urubamba journey, rendered an invaluable service...journey through the lower gorge of the Urubamba between Rosalina and the mouth of the...
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Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
Book by Allen Johnson; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Social Life And Customs, Machiguenga Indians--Kinship, Machiguenga Indians--Social Life And Customs
...1 :181) account of his trip down the Urubamba gorge in the 1860s; his guide warned...Matthiessen (1961) traveled down the RAo Urubamba, passing the mouth of the RAo Kompiroshiato...companions found the going along the RAo Urubamba increasingly rough in every respect...
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American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
Book by Neil Smith; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Bowman, Isaiah--1878-1950, Geographers--United States--Biography, Geography--United States--History--20th Century, Globalization--History--20th Century
...MAPS 1 Bowmans Latin American expeditions, 1907, 1911, 1913 58 2 The Urubamba River, 1911 expedition 63 3 Bowmans map of the Urubamba River 65 4 Part of Bowmans 1911 topographic map down the seventy-third meridian...
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Empire of the Inca
Book by Burr Cartwright Brundage; University of Oklahoma Press, 1963
Subjects: Incas, Peru--History--To 1548
...Vilcashuaman Terracing over the Urubamba / Gate at Sacsahuaman Kenko...over the watershed to the north in the Urubamba Valley. This being the case, they entered...If the Tambos really came from the Urubamba Valley, then the journey from Pacaritambo...
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journal articles on: Urubamba  - 14 results

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Piro Designs: Painting as Meaningful Action in an Amazonian Lived World
Journal article by Peter Gow; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999
Subjects: Aesthetics--Social aspects, Demographic anthropology--Research, Peru--Demographic aspects
...design, among the Piro people of the Bajo Urubamba river in Eastern Peru.(1) The designs...Piro and other native people on the Bajo Urubamba is co-residence, living in a village...told that all Piro people from along the Urubamba river must be invited to the ritual...
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In Search of Ritual: Tradition, Outer World and Bad Manners in the Amazon
Journal article by Oscar Calavia Saez; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004
Subjects: Ethnology--Research, Fasts and feasts--Research, Indigenous peoples--Behavior, Indigenous peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Rites and ceremonies--Research, Ritual--Research, Rituals--Research
...Yaminawa apart from other small Nawa groups of the Jurua-Purus and Urubamba-Ucayali rivers in the southwestern Amazon. (1) They all belong...The social organization of the native communities of the Bajo Urubamba River. Ph.D. thesis, London School of Economics amp; Political...
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RE-rereading Camera Lucida: Viewing Barthes through Victor Burgin
Journal article by Natalie Bell; Afterimage, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Barthes, Roland--Appreciation, Burgin, Victor--Works, Camera Lucida (Book)--Appreciation, Literary critics--Appreciation, Literary critics--Works, Photography--Appreciation, Rereading Camera Lucida (Essay)--Criticism and interpretation
...1957). The first time I read Camera Lucida I was on the train from Cusco to Machu Picchu, Peru, which travels alongside the Urubamba River in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in the Andes. At that moment, I was interested in photographys role in objectifying...
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Psychological Value as a Determinant of Earthquake Portents in Two Peruvian Communities
Journal article by Linda Dégh; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 93, 1980
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Cuzco continued to be the politically and economically dominant center of the region up to present times. Situated on the Urubamba River, the Sacred Valley of the Incas lies some thirty kilometers away and 1,000 meters lower than Cuzco. From earliest...
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The Camisea Project: Developing Legal Frameworks for Avoiding Social and Environmental Conflicts in Sensitive Areas
Journal article by Giancarlo Guardia Gonzalez; Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, 2009
Subjects: Environmental impact analysis--Usage, Gas wells--Design and construction, Liability for environmental damages--Laws, regulations and rules, Natural gas reserves--Design and construction, Natural gas wells--Design and construction, Natural gas--Design and construction, Natural gas--Reserves, Social conflict--Prevention
...The Malvinas Plant has been built on the right bank of the Urubamba River. (21) Its installations are projected to produce 11.3...aspx?docnum=1044695. (179.) See Roger Hamilton, Voyage up the Urubamba: Local Leaders Attend a Meeting on Protected Area Management...
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Incas, Children of the Sun
Magazine article by Robert Rousseau; World and I, Vol. 22, June 2007
Subjects: Historic sites, Incan culture--Evaluation, Machu Picchu (Ancient city)--Description and travel, Machu Picchu (Ancient city)--History, Machu Picchu (Ancient city)--Location
...traveling from Cuzco on foot and by mule through the Urubamba Valley and to the Urubamba gorge--the real excitement would start at place...from the Inca capital and 8,000 feet above the Urubamba river. The ruins--equipped with palaces, baths...
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Living by the World: Another Commandment
Magazine article by Maria Teresa Palmer; The Christian Century, Vol. 123, October 31, 2006
Subjects: Christianity--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Peru--Religious aspects, Peru--Social aspects
...lectionary passages last summer in the Urubamba Valley in my native Peru, and in my native...about their brothers and sisters in the Urubamba Valley. "We have children too," one woman...brothers who are welcoming spring in the Urubamba valley. Maria Teresa Palmer is founding...
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The Cost of Living Richly
Magazine article by Ilyse Hogue; Multinational Monitor, Vol. 23, April 2002
Subjects: Citigroup Inc, Corporate profiles, Developing countries, Environmental impact, Financial institutions, International finance, LDCs
The Cost of Living Richly by Ilyse Hogue FLYING LOW OVER A PRISTINE RAINFOREST region in the remote Urubamba region of the Peruvian Amazon, a helicopter brings supplies to a construction site. As the native birds scramble out of the way...
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The Cost of Living Richly: Citigroup's Global Finance and Threats to the Environment
Magazine article; Multinational Monitor, Vol. 23, April 2002
Subjects: Environment, Finance, Global warming, International finance
...a global finance campaigner with the Rainforest Action Network. FLYING LOW OVER A PRISTINE RAINFOREST region in the remote Urubamba region of the Peruvian Amazon, a helicopter brings supplies to a construction site. As the native birds scramble out of the...
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Secret Citadel of the Last Inca: Lured by History and Myth This Author Trekked through Dense Peruvian Jungle to a Remote Stronghold Once Occupied by Manco Inca
Magazine article by Ricardo Carrasco Stuparich; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, September 2002
Subjects: Incas--Religion and mythology, Peru--History, South American native peoples--History
...refuge in the cordillera of the Upper Urubamba. Manco Inca and his men plunged into...then into the deep jungle of the Upper Urubamba, a major tributary of the Amazon River...its abundance to the fact that the deep Urubamba and Apurimac River valleys separate the...
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newspaper articles on: Urubamba  - 15 results

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Machu Picchu Reveals Its Majesty Visiting the Sacred Ruins of the Inca Empire Proves an Illuminating Experience
Newspaper article by Diana Gleasner; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 16, 2004
...entrance was easily hidden. Two thousand feet below, the roaring Urubamba River was uncrossable. High in the Andes, invisible from below...mines as well as mountain biking and white-water rafting on the Urubamba. Andean cuisine is served alfresco or inside by the hearth...
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Banker 'Killed by Blow to Head' on the Inca Trail; Murder Fears: Colin Murphy during His Holiday in Peru
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 25, 2008
Subjects: Bankers, Murder
...Year. A post mortem report indicates the divorced banker was killed by a blow to thehead before his body was dumped in the Urubamba river. The pathologistconcluded he was struck on the base of the skull with force four days beforehis body was found. British...
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Travel 2000 - Peru: The Whole World Is in Your Andes; an Inca-Redible Peruvian Trek Will Leave You on Cloud Nine, Says Gordon Adair
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 12, 2000
...another 6.30am start as we made a short bus journey to the Urubamba River and a mornings white water rafting with a background...to Cuzco, another impressive journey through the beautiful Urubamba Valley. A city tour of Cuzco the following day proved another...
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Travel: Peru's Been Framed
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 26, 2005
...between two iconic peaks on a multi-levelled ridge above the Urubamba river, and its history is the stuff of myth, rather than hard...either side, the ruins offer breathtaking views across the Urubamba valley which are well worth braving the vertigo-inducing, cliff-hugging...
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Travel: Legendary Land of the Incas; Neville Dean Takes Inspiration from the Lost City of Machu Pichu and Some of Peru's Most Luxurious Hotels
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 26, 2005
Subjects: Guevara, Ernesto
...between two iconic peaks on a multi-levelled ridge above the Urubamba river and its history is the stuff of myth, rather than hard...either side, the ruins offer breathtaking views across the Urubamba valley which are well worth braving the vertigo-inducing, cliff...
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encyclopedia articles on: Urubamba  - 4 results

 
 
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Urubamba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
URUBAMBA ooroobam ba, river, c.450 mi (720 km) long, rising...north to join the Apurimac River to form the Ucayali. The Urubamba is extensively used for irrigation, and its valley is...populated; Cuzco, Peru, is located there. High above the Urubambas gorge are the ruins of the terraced Inca city of Machu...
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Ucayali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UCAYALI ookaya le, river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Apurimac and Urubamba rivers, E Peru, and flowing generally north through a mountain and jungle wilderness to the Maranon River, SW of Iquitos. It...
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Machu Picchu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mi (80 km) NW of Cuzco. It is perched high upon a rock in a narrow saddle between two sharp mountain peaks and overlooks the Urubamba River 2,000 ft (600 m) below. Ignored and later forgotten by Spanish colonial authorities because of its abandoned condition...
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ApurÍmac
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Mantaro River, the Apurimac becomes the Ene; after joining the Perene River, it becomes the Tambo. When it joins the Urubamba River, it becomes the Ucayali , which is one of the main headstreams of the Amazon . The headwaters of the Apurimac, which...


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