People of Peru Index
Below is a list of all of the People of Peru entries we have published so far. Click on an entry's title to see the full entry.
Update 18: How Do People Survive in the Flooded Forest
: May 05, 2006The way the people in the rainforest live makes sense to me. This massive lowland forest of plants, trees, and animals provides everything the people need to be happy, healthy, and wholesome. They are thankful for all that the rainforest that gives them life.
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Update 17: Life in Yarina
: May 03, 2006On the weekends, the children of the community get together to play sports. Every Saturday they play a competitive game of volleyball. Every Sunday they play soccer. They also love to play tag and hide and seek. There are lots of good hiding places in the rainforest!
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Update 16: Peru Vs. the United States - I love them both
: May 01, 2006In Peru, life is simple. Life is free from the clutters (or luxuries?) of televisions, cars, fast food, shopping malls, and the Internet. Using materials from the rainforest, people build their houses with their own two hands. They eat preservative-free food straight from their gardens, the rivers, and the rainforest. They live among monkeys, pink dolphins, and macaws. Does that sound like a life you want to live?
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Update 15: Fishing For a Living
: April 28, 2006Because the arapaima and arawana were once endangered, the fishermen are only allowed to catch a certain amount of fish each year. In exchange for being able to catch the fish, the men must volunteer at the ranger stations in the reserve. When they are volunteering, the fishermen help monitor fish populations and keep illegal fisherman out of the area.
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Update 14: Fish Soup for Breakfast, Anyone?
: April 26, 2006People that live in the rainforest can not rely on grocery stores to keep them fed. They must grow, harvest, and hunt their food. I wonder what foods we would eat if we had to rely on gardening and hunting, like the people do in the rainforest. How much of the food that you eat every day can be grown in your backyard?
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Update 13: The Rainforest -- A Great Place For A Field Trip
: April 24, 2006The students from Iquitos come to the research center for about two months at a time. Here, they study the fish in the rainforest by catching them in nets and then dissecting their stomachs. The students then eat their specimens for dinner!
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Update 12: What Would Your Rainforest House Look Like?
: April 21, 2006Six years ago, Warren completed his home made of a type of wood from the rainforest called cumala. The house took him only one month to build.
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Update 11: Macaws, Monkeys, and . . . Illegal Loggers?
: April 19, 2006Fifty years ago, if you were to canoe through what is now the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, trees like the cedar and the mahogany would have been a common sight. Today, those trees are few and far between, because of illegal logging.
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Update 10: Does Your House Float?
: April 17, 2006In the flooded forest, people use resources from the rainforest to build their homes. Because the river can flood up to eleven feet every year, they have to use creative ways to keep their homes dry.
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Update 9: School's Out. . . for Five Months?
: April 14, 2006If you were only in school for 7 months a year, what would you do during your 5 month long break? The children in the village of Monte Bello have plenty to do!
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Update 8: Boat Maker, Boat Maker, Make Me a Boat
: April 12, 2006In the flooded forest, canoes are made by hollowing out rainforest trees. A man named Manceo built one of our canoes, from a catawa tree in ten days.
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Update 7: Changing Seasons, Changing Lives
: April 10, 2006During our two days on the Launcha, we learned a lot about how families survive in the flooded forest. Our 13-year old hammock neighbor, Luis, gave us some insight.
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Update 6: Floating to School
: April 07, 2006The school is built on stilts, and since the town is covered in thirty feet of water, the children canoe to school every day. They pull their boats up under the school and climb up the ladder and into the classroom.
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Update 5: Motorcycling South America
: April 05, 2006Ruben and his friend, Geraldine, just completed an 8,000 mile trip throughout South America on Ruben's 250cc motorcycle! That is like driving an entire loop around all of North America.
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Update 4: Our first contact with Peruvians
: April 03, 2006Anna starts to notice differences between Lima and cities in the US. Honking happens everywhere and at everything, especially passing by a side street where a car might be pulling out. Our taxi driver honked at the cars he was passing, honked at the stop signs, and even honked at the dogs eating trash on the side of the road
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Update 3: Riberno Culture and Lifestyle
: March 31, 2006The people that live along the rivers in the Amazon rainforest are called riberenos. Ribereno is Spanish for "shore dweller." Riberenos depend on the plants and animals in the rainforest to survive. They use the water from the flooded...Read more!
The cultures of Peru
: March 29, 2006Part of the preparation in traveling to another country is learning about the people of that region. We want to be able to understand and respect the Peruvian culture just as they would do so if they visited the...Read more!
Update 1: Doctors of the Rainforest
: March 27, 2006For most of us, when we get sick we can jump in the car or take the train or bus to a doctor. The doctor can give us different kinds of medicines to help us recover from illness. In...Read more!
