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Potatoe field
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Iris Odio (tucancr)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-05-28 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Camera: NIKON D 70, Nikkor AF 28-80mm, UV |
| Exposure: f/6.0, 1/500 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-05-29 0:12 |
| Viewed: 446 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Origins
There are about 200 different wild potato species. They occur from the southwestern USA through the highlands of Mexico, Central America, the Andes to Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. Most species diversity is found in the Mexican transvolcanic belt (near Mexico City, and in the central-southern Andes (central Peru to Bolivia).
The ancestor of the modern cultivated potato was domesticated in the Andes. Recent genetic analysis has shown that the potato was cultivated from one progenitor in an area of southern Peru, and the cultivated species then spread from there. However, the plant may have been used in other parts of the world, and it appears that native Americans collected or even cultivated them in what is now New Mexico (USA). Archaeological evidence suggests that Andean people have cultivated the potato for at least 7,000 years. In pre-Columbian times it was widely grown in the Andes (at high elevations where it is too cold for maize) and in parts of Chile (Chiloe island in particular).
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Holaaaaaaaa!!!!! Que buen regreso, me encantan estos viejos árboles en el centro de este campo de papas con desnivel.Muy lindo Iris.Saludes, Rafa
Hello dear Iris
Como estas in Costa Rica ? Last we where in touch was ?? October last year? Hope all is fine at your end of the Ocean ^_^ Actualy I spoak to friends last weekend who have been to Costa Rica last year and they loved it! TYelling us to come too one day..Only ..doo many Crocodiles every where , yes?!?
Your photo is fantastic, fresh colours are great and so is the POV. Bye for now y hasta pronto ? TFS
John
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