Videos tagged with "west"

7 part "Улан-Удэ - Франция" folk festival in France, Plozevet, Bretagne [07:40]
Ulan-Ude - France: in 1997 Buryat ensemble "Selenga" visited France and took part in many folk festivals. Here you can see the fest in Plozévet (a commune in the Finistère department in Bretagne in northwestern France) Улан-Удэ -Франция 1997. Участники международного фольклорного фестиваля в Плозевете, Бретань, Франция. В том числе знаменитая ирландская группа The Wolfe Tones.
Tags: франция, фольклорный, фестиваль, буряты, бурятия, улан-удэ, румыния, ирландцы, австралийцы, эфиопия, южная, америка, france, buryats, buryatia, ulan-ude, plozevet,

Joaquin Meneses kayak Ecuador Mulaute river [00:26]
12 yr old Joaquin Meneses loves to kayak! Here he's kayaking the beautiful Mulaute River in the western jungles of Ecuador
Tags: kayak, whitewater, joaquin meneses, ecuador, jacksonkayak, mulaute, river, rio

The Wao Welcome Mask in the Yasuni (Full Version) [05:22]
The Waorani are Amerindians from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador (Napo, Orellana and Pastaza Provinces) who have marked differences from other ethnic groups from Ecuador. The entire Yasuni Biosphere Reserve region is ancestral Waorani territory, which extends from the Napo River on the north and west, down to the Curaray River in the south and eastward into Peru (map). This vast territory, which stretches over 20 000 km2, underlies the current limits of Yasuni National Park and the Waorani Ethnic Reserve Information on Waorani history and distribution prior to the twentieth century is scarce and speculative The Waorani were traditionally a highly mobile, semi-nomadic population of hunter-gatherer horticulturalists. They lived in four warring and widely dispersed groups located on hilltops away from major rivers; the headwaters of the Tiputini River constituted the core of ancestral Waorani territory. Other indigenous groups, mainly the Zaparos, lived along the Tiputini and Curaray rivers in essence surrounding the Waorani. When the Zaparos were suddenly decimated by disease and violent displacement during the rubber boom that hit the region in the late 1800s, the Waorani were able to expand their territory northward to the Napo and southward to the Upper Curaray and Villano rivers. Waorani territory likely reached its greatest extent at the beginning of 20th century . At least two lines of evidence suggest that the Waorani were quite isolated, even from other indigenous ...
Tags: Shiripuno Lodge, Shiripuno River, Yasuni National Park, Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Yasuni ITT, Waorani People, Amazon River, Amazon, Rainforest, Ecuador, Nature Tours, Eco-Tours, Eco-Travel, Culture, Adevnture, Amazon Rainforest, Adventure, Climbing, Birdi

kapawi Ecolodge [06:32]
Kapawi Ecolodge is situated deep in the nearly two million acres of the Achuar people's traditional territory near the confluence of the Pastaza and Capahuari Rivers-the former a major, the latter a minor tributary of the Amazon-near the border between Ecuador and Peru. This area is one of the most remote and well-protected parts of the western Amazon Basin. It is a remote and pristine region, untouched by logging, mining or petroleum extraction. The closest road is a ten-day walk from the lodge. The rivers are not navigable to the lodge from the nearest outposts of civilization. Kapawi is accessible only by air. The entrance to the lodge and to Achuar territory, flying in a small plane over the uninterrupted vastness of green triple-canopy rainforest, is one of the unique highlights a visit to Kapawi provides.
Tags: kapawi, amazon, rainforest, ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon River, ecuadoroutes

Galapagos Island by prismash [07:02]
The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km (525 nmi) west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. Wildlife is its most notable feature. The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a biological marine reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of around 23000. The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The first crude navigation chart of the islands was done by the buccaneer Ambrose Cowley in 1684. He named the individual islands after some of his fellow pirates or after the English noblemen who helped the privateer's cause. More recently, the Ecuadorian government gave most of the islands Spanish names. While the Spanish names are official, many users (especially ecological researchers) continue to use the older English names, particularly as those were the names used when Charles Darwin visited.
Tags: galapagos island, isla galapagos, galapagos, animal, charles darwin. ecuador, island