how are quinceneara's celebrated in south america?
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In Ecuador the girl's family throws a big party for family and friends.  All the decorations and the girl's dress are usually pink.  There is a cake, dancing, etc.
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Welll, that's a toughie.  There's not really a specific monument/edifice/bridge that is associated with Columbia (for example, the Eiffel Tower with France, or Statue of Liberty with U.S.).  However, the walled, old colonial town of Cartagena is quite beautiful and fairly well-known in photographs.  Or, you could do an old Spanish fort.  There are fotos at:  www.cartagenafotos.com\n\nOr, there are stone monuments that are associated with Columbia; they are part-men and part-jaguar.  Or, you could do a 3D of the Andes mountains.\n\nGood luck!
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Ano Nuevo = New Years\nPasqua = Easter\nDia de dar Gracias = Thanksgiving\nNavidad = Christmas\nViernes Santo = Good Friday\nDia de Trabajadores = Labor Day\nCinco de Mayo = May 5th (Mexican Independence Day)\nDia de las Madres = Mother's day \nDia de los Padres = Father's Day\nDia de los Muertos = Halloween\nDia de San Valentin = Valentine's Day\nQuatro de Julio = 4th of July
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All depends on how you relate to your spanish heritage, and how close you are with that side of the family. Quinceneara is totally different from sweet 16 in this respect.\n\n15= all family with your closest friends in the background very sweet and humble, no drinking allowed, party party party with food and dancing. Your family gives you envelopes with money and roses. Parents have more control over the party atmosphere.\n16= all friends and family is in the background, very loud, spiking drinks, party party party with finger food and dancing, and illegal activities in the parking lot. Friends get out of control and embarrass you infront of your family.
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I don't know, but I'll give you 2 links from youtube. \n\nIndigenous music from Bolivia, sung in Aymara, a Bolivian native american language:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5D8CJq5RQ\n\nMercedes Sosa, the famous Argentinians singer, "la negra", singing Gracias a la Vida, one of the most famous Latin American songs:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOJ-A5iv5I
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there are lots, im from Ecuador and on the easter part of my country there is a huge rainforest, its connected to the Amazon rainforest which is expanded between Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil; thats the biggest and most recognized rainforest in South America and the World
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The Quiapo church is in Manila, Philipines....It´s an antigue  life sized figure of Jesus carved in wood that was originally from Mexico\n\nWould this help you in any way?\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nazarene\nhttp://www.nathanielturner.com/blacknazarene.htm
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Ypu should read Mafalda from Quino (Argentina)
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We say it as "Feliz dia de accion de gracias" \nNote: If by american holiday you mean USA, you need to get up to date with geography butterfly.
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Hello, dia de los muertos is in spanish saying day of the dead celebrated in MEXICO where the people of MEXICO go to the graves and party and drink for all the past relatives. It can get real grusome when some people get to invovled and start bringing the dead out physically, the phlilipines have a similar celebration.bye
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MEXICO, SPAIN, and most of South American countries but Brazil
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El Cinco de Mayo("The Fifth of May" in Spanish) is a national celebration in Mexico. It commemorates the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
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it's actually spelled Quinceañera. as for the history, here are a few links for you.\n\nhttp://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore/quinceaneras/aqlitrep.htm\n\nhttp://www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us/schools/BertaCabaza/HSSB/Language_Arts/Quin_History.html\n\nhttp://pressroom.hallmark.com/quinceanera.html
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The holiday is especially popular in Mexico, where it is a national holiday, and is celebrated in the Philippines, in Mexican-American communities in the United States, and to a lesser extent in other Latin American countries. It is a public holiday in Brazil, where many Brazilians celebrate it by visiting cemeteries and churches, bringing flowers, lighting candles and praying.
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Well, the GABI (Great American Biotic Interchange) went both ways, and several families of mammals from North America came to South America, and viceversa. However, only few native South Americans remain today in North America (NA), whereas many originally Holarctic families are thriving in South America (SA) at present. \n\nThe above answerer has outlined the three major "strata" defined by GG Simpson for the mammals of SA. The "original" South American mammals before the GABI included marsupials (shared with Australia, but forming a distinct cohort with different families) but also the exclusively South American xenarthrans (although there is a possible fossil anteater from Europe), and the Caviomorph rodents (closely related to the hystricognathous African rodents). In addition, there were some carnivores that had made it from NA. \n\nAfter the Panama land bridge appeared, the GABI was intense. North and South American faunas mixed and they appear to have coexisted for a long time. \nThe subsequent Pleistocene extinctions involved groups of both origins, but the South American natives were more intensely affected. Among the hypotheses to explain this,  interspecific competition has been mentioned, but also climatic changes. \nFirst of all, direct competition is _very_ difficult to prove, and more so with respect to fossil remains from strata that may not be exactly coeval. A more recent and preferred explanation involves a little paleoclimatology. \n** During the glaciations (and other stressful periods), South American conditions were more benign, because the continent is closer to the Equator, whereas environments in NA were much harsher, facilitating the extinction of the South American immigrants, along with many native North American giant forms. \n**In addition, the Central American corridor, which had been at first a savanna-like environment that permitted passage, later in the Pleistocene became more like a tropical forest. Then many cursorial (running) animals that inhabited open areas were unable to "cross the bridge". The giant ground sloths and glyptodonts were trapped in NA, and when climate and vegetation kept changing toward colder and drier conditions, became extinct.\n\nAnimals left from this: \nAmong the original South American natives, only the xenarthrans (sloths, armadillos, and anteaters) and marsupials (opossums)[early inhabitants], and the caviomorph rodents (originally derived from their African relatives) [second stratum colonizers] are alive today. The immensely diverse native ungulates went extinct, along with the representatives of the megafauna (giant sloths, glyptodonts, etc). At least one species of armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is expanding its range in NA today, and the opossums (I remember Didelphis virginiana, not sure if there are others) are well established there. Caviomorph rodents also occur in NA (porcupines, genus Erethizon), but are mostly confined to Central America. \nThese are the South American contributions to North American fauna. In contrast, about 50% of the South American mammal genera have North American origin.\n\nWith respect to birds, at least the Passeriformes Suboscines are South American in origin, but I have no idea _when_ they colonized NA. They include the Tyrannidae (tyrant flycatchers). Other birds with Neotropical origin are the hummingbirds (Trochiliformes or Apodiformes).\n\n---------------------\nUpdate:\nMmm... I’m not sure what you call “non-speed strategies”. Predators? Running forms such as ungulates? There were many native ungulates in South America and they went extinct; also many marsupial predators such as the marsupial sabertooth “cat”  that also disappeared. Many caviomorph rodents are cursorial (capybaras, agoutis, etc).\nI would relate it more to size. Size _is_ a constraint because large animals have different energetic balance and need large amounts of food and room. And those went extinct in both co
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north east coast of south america
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They actually have TWO "Independence" Days: November 3, and November 28.\n\nNovember 3 is actually celebrated as the "Anniversary of Separation from Colombia". November 28 is celebrated as the true Independence Day, the day Panama gained independence from Spain.