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  • Two miners work alongside the bed of the Madre de Dios River in the extraction of gold by suction using a gasoline engine in the Peruvian Amazon. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • People attend a party in the main square of Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A group of young people wait for a truck to take them to Delta 1. To move from one town to another within the mining corridor, several rivers must be crossed, this is more difficult in the rainy season.
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  • One man loads gasoline for the boat's engine, other miners head to different gold mining sites along the Madre de Dios River in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Vegetation of the Peruvian Amazon. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • Cayucos with products for trade in the riverbed of the Madre de Dios River, near the town of Boca Colorado, Peru. In the interior of the Amazon jungle there are many camps for the extraction of gold.
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  • Selling fried fish in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Pickup trucks cross several rivers carrying gasoline. The Peruvian government has prohibited the sale of gasoline in large quantities without a permit in the Peruvian Amazon. Huaypetue, Peru.
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  • A miner uses a wooden plank to float and stand while tying down the hose that sucks the mud out of a flooded hole containing gold sediment in Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • Tres mujeres buscan oro en los fragmentos de roca extraídos de la mina en Rinconada.<br />
Las mujeres no pueden ingresar a la mina, los mineros creen que si una mujer ingresa a la mina, el oro desaparece.<br />
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Three women look for gold in the fragments of rock that have been extracted from the mine in Rinconada.<br />
Women are not allowed to enter into the mine, the miners have the belief that if a woman enters into the mine the gold disappears.
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  • Men go up to the sacred mountain Sinaqara to worship to all the mountains or Apus, during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit’i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru. By the climate change the glacier is retiring, now in the place of the ritual there isn't snow, for them, snow is sacred and an important part of the celebration.
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  • Pilgrims and dancers prepare to perform a ritual at sunrise to receive the first rays of the sun during the festivity that worships the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Dancer with traditional clothes and mask (waq'ollo) during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • A woman sells sausage and meat during a party in the main square of Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Washed soil slides down four carpeted ramps that catch gold in its wake in Huepetuhe, Peru. Huepetuhe is one of the largest mining areas in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A man protects himself from the rain in Huepetuhe, Peru. Huepetuhe is a town where the largest gold extraction is concentrated and where people work every day, destroying the Amazon rainforest.
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  • Huepetuhe is one of the largest mining areas in the Peruvian Amazon. Huepetuhe, Peru. The view is from an old river bed.
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  • Landscape devastated by mining activity in Huepetuhe, Peru. Huepetuhe is a town where the largest gold extraction is concentrated every day, destroying the Amazon rainforest.
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  • A young man waits for transportation to go to work at a gold mining camp in Huepetuhe, Peru. Huepetuhe is a town where the largest gold extraction is concentrated within the mining corridor in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Father Pablo Zavala offers a mass for the death of a person from the San Jose de Kareme community in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Students in the courtyard of a school in Boca Colorado, a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Wood from the Amazon in Madre De Dios, Peru.
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  • Floating tree trunks, a devastated landscape, mounds of gravel to support ramps for the separation of sediments with gold in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A miner adjusts the moorings of the machinery they use to extract gold in the Peruvian Amazon. Once they have finished extracting gold in that place, they will continue deforesting to extend the work area. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • One of many trees felled to expand the work area for gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • A miner adjusts the moorings of the machine they use to extract gold in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A miner uses a wooden board to float and move through a flooded hole from which they extract gold with machinery in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A single man is in charge of felling trees to extend the area of search and extraction of gold in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A single man is in charge of felling trees to extend the area of search and extraction of gold in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A miner controls a machine built to suck and expel mud from a hole in the jungle, this mud carries gold that after a day's work is collected with carpets.
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  • Fire to burn small vegetation before cutting down trees to broaden the search for gold in the Peruvian Amazon at Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • A man carries a gas tank through the main mine entrance of Rinconada.
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  • A miners group prepares itself to enter to the tunnel and work four hours at day.
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  • Vista del pequeño pueblo Lunar de Oro con una laguna artificial formada con sedimentos tóxicos y mercurio.<br />
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View of the village Lunar de Oro with a artificial lagoon with mercury polluted reservoirs of water.
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  • A man holds a flag for identify to the people from his village between thousands of pilgrims in the valley during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit’i (The Lord of the Shining Snow), in Cusco, Peru.
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  • The music bands plays for the dancers days and nights during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow), in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Pilgrims take a break while one of them touches the quena after attending the festival that worships the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i, in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Pilgrims return from the sanctuary in the afternoon after praying to the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i, which takes place every year in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Two women prepare te meal inside they house in Mahuayani, Mahuayani is the last town before the 8-kilometer walk to the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i sanctuary in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Miners wash and shake a carpet to separate the gold sediments on a riverbed, near to Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • Daily life in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • The miners come and go from their camps for the extraction of gold in the interior of the Amazon rainforest, they move through the Madre de Dios River in Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • Riverbed of the Madre de Dios River, near the town of Boca Colorado, Peru. In the interior of the Amazon jungle there are camps for the extraction of gold.
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  • A couple and other people attend a soccer game in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Women sell fruits and tubers in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Daily life, a group of men watch a soccer game in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • A child poses for a photo during a party on the streets of Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Daily life, some people watch a soccer game in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Daily life in Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Huepetuhe is one of the largest mining areas in the Peruvian Amazon. Huepetuhe, Peru.
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  • Huepetuhe is a city that was formed due to mining activity, here you can buy all type of tools, equipment and products for mining in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Deforested landscape, and waste in an old gold mining area in the mining corridor in the Peruvian Amazon. San Jose de Kareme, Peru.
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  • Deforested landscape and old gold extraction zone in the middle of the mining corridor in the Peruvian Amazon. San Jose de Kareme, Peru.
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  • A miner holds gold in his hand, with the sale of the gold he will obtain payment for his 24-hour workday in San José de Kareme, Peru.
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  • Deforested landscape and gravel mounds to mount ramps for the separation of gold sediments in San Jose de Kareme, Peru.
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  • Father Pablo Zavala offers a mass for the death of a person from the San Jose de Kareme community in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Mound of gravel that was used to place a separation ramp for gold sediments in Delta 1, one of the main gold mining towns in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Delta 1, one of the main gold mining towns in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Students line up to enter the classroom at a school in Boca Colorado, a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Workplace for gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Delta 1, Peru.
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  • A family heads to the mining corridor in Madre de Dios, Peru.
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  • A miner during his work day, around him, trees that have been cut down to expand the area for the extraction of gold in the Peruvian Amazon. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • A miner walks alongside a flooded area used to extract gold by means of a truck engine machine, tubes and hoses in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Two miners reinforce the knots of the logs that support the ramp where the mud slides and the gold particles get trapped in carpets in the peruvian Amazon.
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  • A miner observes the mud that slides on a carpet, at the end of a 24-hour day the sediment that was trapped is separated to search for gold in the peruvian Amazon.
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  • A miner walks next to mounds of gravel that serve to lift the wooden ramps and when the mud is thrown, it is trapped in the carpets.
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  • Un camión repartidor de gas se abre paso entre los mineros que caminan por una de las calles principales de Rinconada. A través de las calles puedes encontrar tiendas que compran y  venden oro, restaurantes y baños públicos.<br />
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A gas delivery truck makes its way among the miners who pass through one of the main streets in Rinconada. Through the streets you can find stores to sell the gold, restaurants and public toilets.
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  • Luego de terminar un día de trabajo, un minero camina a la salida de un socavón utilizado para extraer fragmentos de roca con oro de la mina en Rinconada, debajo de un glaciar en los Andes peruanos.<br />
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After to finish a workday, a miner walk by a path used to extract rock fragments with gold from the tunnels of the mine in Rinconada, under a glacier in Peruvian Andes.
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  • Retrato de un minero frente a la entrada de un socavón en la mina Rinconada.<br />
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Portrait of a miner in front of one tunnel of Rinconada mine.
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  • A woman and a child lights candles at night next to a banner that identifies his comparsa during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow), in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Women clean potatoes to prepare food for a group of pilgrims, in the backgroud, hundreds of tents that pilgrims place to stay for 3 or 4 days in the valley of the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i , a festival that takes place every year in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Traditional dancers dance day and night in front of a small chapel during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow), in the background the Qullqipunku mountain in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Main ceremony during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow in Quechua), In this celebration you can observe the syncretism between the Andean beliefs and the Catholic religion, in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Portrait of a dancer at dusk during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow), in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Men with flags and traditional wool clothing from Paucartambo village go up to the sacred mountain Sinaqara to worship to all the mountains or Apus, during the celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit’i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru. By the climate change the glacier is retiring, now in the place of the ritual there isn't snow, for them, snow is sacred and an important part of the celebration.
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  • Musicians play flutes of cane with drum and cymbals during their pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Qoyllur Rit'i in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Local photographers mount a big background with images of tigers, macaws and waterfalls to take photos to the pilgrims in the way to the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i sanctuary Cusco, Peru.
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  • Mahuayani, where the 8-kilometer hike begins to the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) sanctuary in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Dancers from different villages of the Andes during the festivity of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • A girl carries a baby on her back during the festivity of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i, in tents merchants sell food to the pilgrims in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Men with a group of horses that are used to carry merchandise to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • A miner removes the stones that clog a hose that sucks the mud, a motor drives the mud so that it collides with a mesh and it slid along a carpet and by gravity the gold is trapped. Bed of the Madre de Dios River near Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • A couple embraces during a party in the main square of Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Three women pose for a photo during a party in the main square of Boca Colorado, Peru. Boca Colorado is a town formed entirely by mining activity in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Monument dedicated to the miners who came with the hope of finding gold in Huepetuhe, Peru. Huepetuhe is a town where the largest gold extraction is concentrated within the mining corridor. in the peruvian Amazon.
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  • Sediment mounds from gold extraction in the mining corridor in the Peruvian Amazon. San Jose de Kareme, Peru.
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  • Vegetation gains space on an old gravel mound used to place a separation ramp for gold sediments in San Jose de Kareme, a town in the mining corridor in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • On the way to Delta 1, one of the main gold mining towns in the Peruvian Amazon. The cars move on mounds that were used to place ramps for the separation of gold sediments.
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  • A miner controls an engine adapted to suck and eject mud from a flooded hole in the Peruvian Amazon, the mud contains gold that is separated by gravity as it slides down a ramp. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • A group of men build a new machine for the extraction of gold in the Peruvian Amazon. Boca Colorado, Peru.
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  • A miner collects sediment with a tray to check if there is still a chance of finding gold in the area where they have been working for several days in the Peruvian Amazon.
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  • Los mineros talan árboles para despejar el area e inundar agujeros para extraer el oro de la tierra con una máquina en Boca Colorado, Perú.
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  • Houses are built with zinc sheets beside the mountains where a gold mine is located. City of Rinconada is located at 5400 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes. People have set up a system of hoses to take water from the glacier at top of the mountain.
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  • Un joven sube a la cima de un glaciar para colocar una manguera para llevar agua del deshielo a la mina en Rinconada. En Rinconada no hay agua potable, la única forma de obtener agua es por deshielo del glaciar.<br />
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A young man goes to the top of a glacier to place a hose for bringing melt water to the mine in Rinconada. In Rinconada there is no drinking water, the only way to get water is with the melting of the glaciers.
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  • Dancer with traditional clothes and a hat hand embroidery during celebration of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • A woman with her son in her arms observes the procession of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • A woman drinks water from a piece of ice of thawing of the mountain glacier Sinaqara during the celebration that worships the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i, in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Pilgrims walk during of 8 kilometres to the Sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i (The Lord of the Shining Snow) at the top of the mountain they pray to the Apus (mountains) in Cusco, Peru.
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  • Un hombre trabaja con mercurio para separar el oro de la piedra en la mina Rinconada, el mercurio es altamente tóxico para los seres humanos y el medio ambiente.<br />
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A man works with mercury to separate the gold from the stone in the Rinconada mine, mercury is highly poisonous for humans beings and the environment.
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