#South america

[herpsandbirds]

Festive Tortoise Beetle (Stolas festiva), family Chrysomelidae, Argentina

photograph by Cynthia Bandurek

[arc-hus]

Atelier Workshop, Rafaela, Argentina - Agustín Berzero

[manessha545]

Santiago De Chile, Central Zone, Chile: Global modernization along with the most deeply rooted local traditions coexist in the Central Zone (From Valparaíso to Maule.. .. Santiago, Easter Island, Central Coast, Wine Routes), where some of the most important cities of Chile are located, including Santiago – the versatile capital of the country – and Valparaíso – cultural capital and World Heritage Site... Santiago also known as Santiago de Chile is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. . Wikipedia

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Baby nutrias after snowfall in a park in Frankfurt, Germany. A nutria is a semiaquatic rodent from South America.

Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

[turnnoffyourmind]

Unreal

Puerto Natales Mágico, Patagonia Chilena.

[koenji]

Golden-spotted Ground Dove (Metriopelia aymara) native to the high Andes. x

[retrogamingblog2]

Zelda Goddess Statue spotted in the middle of São Paulo, Brazil

[reasonsforhope]

"Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent.

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights and development opportunities for minors. It still must be signed into law by President Gustavo Petro.

Currently, the country’s civil code allows person as young as 14 years old to get married with parental consent.

The initial proposal to reform the law – presented in 2023 – used the slogan “they’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry, to be subject to different forms of violence and to miss out on education and development opportunities.

“Minors are not sexual objects, they’re girls,” congresswoman Clara López Obregón said in a statement after the proposal was greenlit.

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF.

But there’s been a global drop in child marriages over the past few years, according to the agency’s statistics. “Ten years ago, one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a child. Today that number has fallen to one in five,” UNICEF said.

In Latin America, poverty is the main factor leading to minors getting married, according to UNICEF."

[inatungulates]

Lowland tapir Tapirus terrestris

Observed by kennedy-borges-road, CC BY-NC

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[herpsandbirds]

Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, TX, USA

These birds are native to South America, but have been introduced to various areas of North America and Europe.

photograph by Corey Raffel

[paleoart]

"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual"

Macrauchenia born with polycephaly, inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.

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[manessha545]

Valley of the Moon, La Paz, Bolivia: It’s said that Neil Armstrong himself named this enigmatic place as the “Valley of the Moon” because of its great resemblance to the craters that he saw on his trip to the moon.... Valle de la Luna, also called Killa Qhichwa, is situated about 10 kilometers from downtown La Paz, in the Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia. It consists of an area where erosion has worn away the majority of a mountain, composed primarily of clay rather than rock, leaving tall spires. Wikipedia

[renmoldovan]

Wulaia Bay, Patagonia, Chile

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[whatevergreen]

Millions of America's victims, foreign and domestic, turned in their graves when Shapiro came out with this