On a day like today, July 27, El Caballero de los mares was born and in our infographic you can learn more about the life of the greatest national hero.Miguel Grau was born in the city of Piura on July 27, 1834. He was the son of the Lieutenant Colonel Juan Manuel Grau y Berrío, born in the city of
The Rubber Cycle corresponds to the period in Brazilian history in which the extraction and commercialization of latex for rubber production were basic activities of the economy. In fact, they occurred in the central region of the Amazon forest, between 1879 and 1912, reinvigorating for a short tim
The sugar mill designates the place where sugar was produced during the colonial period. These mills appeared in the 16th century, when sugarcane was planted in Brazil. They had buildings for grinding sugar cane, places to transform the juice into molasses and rapadura, a chapel, a house for the o
Mummy Juanita is the name given to the mummy of a 15th century Inca girl who was discovered in Peru in 1995. She is also known as the Lady of Ampato and the Inca Ice Maiden. The first name is due to the fact that her body was found on the top of Mount Ampato, an inactive volcano in the Andes, and th