This ancient colonial city was the first and most important European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas during the spanish conquest. To understand the use of natural resources and the lifestyles of the first European people who settled on the Isthmus of Panama after the discovery of...
Sea otters and marine otters, both of the Pacific coast of the Americas, have the thickest fur of all marine mammals, and spend much of their time keeping it clean. Sea otters use their paws to gather shellfish to eat, and may even use rocks to crack open the shells. Marine otters ca...
The global distribution, seasonal evolution, and underlying mechanisms for the climatological midsummer drought (MSD) are investigated using a suite of relatively high spatial and temporal resolution station observations and reanalysis data with particular focus on the Pacific coast of Central America and ...
Related to The Pacific Ocean:The Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean The largest of the world's oceans, divided into theNorth Pacific Oceanand theSouth Pacific Ocean.It extends from the western Americas to eastern Asia and Australia. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition...
During EN, anomalously warm water appears along the coast of Ecuador and Peru. As an example we show the deviation of the sea surface temperature from the long-term mean at Puerto Chicama (Fig. 1). The magnitude of this positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly can be used to ...
000 years ago. If the Pacific coast corridor was only truly navigable beginning around 15,000 years ago, that suggests that a full-out sprint along the Pacific coast of the Americas had to have occurred for those sites to be occupied so early...
From Chile to Canada and Korea to Australia, the Pacific Rim is definitely a region to watch as barriers between the countries are loosened and the population grows not only in Asia but also along the Pacific coast of the Americas. The interdependency is likely to increase but can all of t...
As Patrick Kirch,an American anthropologist, points out, rather than being brought by rafting South Americans, sweet potatoes might just haveeasily been brought back by retuming Polynesian navigators who could have reached the west coast of South America.Directions: Now answer the questions.Paragraph...
2009. "Landscapes as metaphor. Resources, language, and myths of dynastic origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabi (Ecuador)." In Landscapes of origin in the Americas. Creation narratives linking ancient places and present communities, ed. ...
The Temperate Northern Pacific connects, via the Bering Sea, to the Arctic marine realm, which includes the polar waters of the Arctic Sea. To the south, it transitions to the tropical marine realms of the Pacific, including the Tropical Eastern Pacific along the Pacific coast of the Americas...