nauka: Iguazu Falls

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The Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná. Together, they make up the largest waterfall system in the world. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River rises near the heart of the city of Curitiba. For most of its course, the river flows through Brazil; however, most of the falls are on the Argentine side. Below its confluence with the San Antonio River, the Iguazu River forms the border between Argentina and Brazil. The name Iguazú comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y [ɨ], meaning 'water', and ûasú [waˈsu], meaning 'big'. Legend has it that a d…

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ; c. 1488/90/92 – after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of travelling across what is today the Southwestern United States, he became a trader, evangelist, and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account of his experiences, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios ("The Account and Commentaries"), and later retitled Naufragios y comentarios ("Shipwrecks and Commentaries"). Cabeza…

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The 1542 Relación (Account) of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

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Los Naufragios (1542) de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: España y los albores de la legalidad internacional. En este artículo propongo una lectura de los Naufragios (1542) de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca que se ciña a los términos del debate moral y político imperante en la España en que el explorador jerezano redactó su historia. A la luz de la Relectio prior de Indis recenter inventis (1538) de Francisco de Vitoria, se comprueba cómo el bagaje espiritual e ideológico de Cabeza de Vaca no fue fruto exclusivo de su periplo americano, sino más bien de su familiaridad con las coordenadas éticas propias de la España oficial de su tiempo: la que puso los cimientos de una incipiente legalidad internac…

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The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (also translated as The Story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca or The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca) is the account of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's experiences with the Narváez expedition. Cabeza de Vaca was born in 1490 in Jeréz de la Frontera, Spain. The scion of a noble family, he spent his young adulthood serving as a soldier. In 1527 he was appointed second in command of an expedition headed by Panfilo de Narváez, who was charged with claiming the territory from Florida to Mexico for Spain.

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El relato del fracaso. Los Comentarios de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. El presente artículo aborda la crónica que elabora Cabeza de Vaca sobre su experiencia rioplatense. El sobreviviente de la aventura en La Florida marcha como adelantado de las provincias del Río de la Plata y regresa a España engrillado, acusado de traición al rey. La propuesta en esta ocasión es analizar las condiciones de producción y legibilidad de un texto elaborado casi diez años después de comenzado el juicio que entabla el fiscal real. Los Comentarios ponen en escena el desafío narrativo de contar el fracaso de una empresa de conquista, aunque no solamente. Sobre ese plus o esa particularidad - que alcanza a dicho…

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (also translated as The Story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca or The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca) is the account of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s experiences with the Narváez expedition. Cabeza de Vaca was born in 1490 in Jeréz de la Frontera, Spain. The scion of a noble family, he spent his young adulthood serving as a soldier. In 1527 he was appointed second in command of an expedition headed by Panfilo de Narváez, who was charged with claiming the territory from Florida to Mexico for Spain.

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The Sierra de la Plata ("Mountain of Silver") was a mythical source of silver in the interior of South America. The legend began in the early 16th century when castaways from the Juan Díaz de Solís expedition heard indigenous stories of a mountain of silver in an inland region ruled by the so-called White King. The first European to lead an expedition in search of it was the castaway Aleixo Garcia, who crossed nearly the entire continent to reach the Andean altiplano. On his way back to the coast, Garcia died in an ambush by indigenous people in Paraguay, but survivors brought precious metals back to corroborate their story. The legend inspired other expeditions, all of which ended in failu…

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Aleixo Garcia, also known in Spanish as Alejo García, (died 1525) was a Portuguese explorer and conquistador in service to Spain. He was a castaway who lived in Brazil and explored Paraguay and Bolivia. On a raiding expedition with a Guaraní army, Garcia and a few colleagues were the first Europeans known to have come into contact with the Inca Empire.

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This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957. Despite several significant transoceanic and transcontinental explorations by European civilizations in the preceding centuries, the precise geography of the Earth outside of Europe was largely unknown to Europeans before the 15th century, when technological advances (especially in sea travel) as well as the rise of colonialism, mercantilism, and a host of other social, cultural, and economic changes made it possible to organize large-scale exploratory expeditions to uncharted…

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Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke/Smoke that Rises"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft). The region around it has a high degree of biodiversity in both plants and animals. Archaeology and oral history describe a long record of African knowledge of the site. Although known to some European geographers before the 19th century, Scottish missionary David Livingstone was introduced to the falls in 1855, naming them Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria. Since the mid-20th century, the site has been a maj…