• Quincha is a traditional construction system that uses, fundamentally, wood and cane or giant reed forming an earthquake-proof framework that is covered...
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    houses Clay panel Cob (building) Earthen plaster Lath and plaster Mudbrick Quincha Rammed earth Timber frame Shaffer, Gary D. (Spring 1993). "An Archaeomagnetic...
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  • The Serranía de las Quinchas is an 860 km2 area of tropical rainforest and cloud forest in Colombia. It lies in the mid Magdalena River Valley in the foothills...
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    series of works were carried out. The original construction was made of quincha and adobe. The architecture is eclectic in style due to several changes...
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    banks of creeks and rivers. During this period, groups of people lived in Quincha houses with straw roofs, in the vicinity of irrigation channels and horticulture...
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    The identity of the birds discovered in 2000/2001 in the Serranía de las Quinchas of central Colombia  is unclear. The white hawk was described by John Latham:...
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    isothermal conditions; they are categorized into three types of home: quincha —built with posts and giant cane—, rammed earth —resistant and isothermal—...
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    occasionally been recorded in the uplands (e.g., in the Serranía de las Quinchas of Colombia) Three white eggs are laid in a nest hole on a dead tree and...
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    academic style with some elements of Italian Art Nouveau, were adobe and quincha. Inside, the levels were connected by a European marble staircase. Being...
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    for the house of Republican period, known as "Casa Rosada", made with Quincha and wood walls. This house had a square floor plan and its structure was...
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    strays off course; for example, it was only recorded in the Serranía de las Quinchas of Colombia – just 100 km (62 mi) or so off its usual migration route –...
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    well known; it was, for example, only recorded in the Serranía de las Quinchas (Colombia) in the 1990s. In winter, they prefer more open woodland, or...
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    alta de la Serranía de las Quinchas, Magdalena medio, Colombia [New bird records from the highlands of Serranía de las Quinchas, middle Magdalena valley...
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  • pupu) quechua (Quechua qhichwa) quena (Quechua) quetzal (Nahuatl) quiltro quincha (Quechua qincha) quina (Quechua kinakina) quinua, quinoa (Quechua kinwa)...
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    prominent geographical features are the Range of the Zorro, Serrania de las Quinchas and the Andean plateaus of Rusia, Guantivá, Pisba, Chontales and Rechiniga...
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    indigenous in religious architecture. The use of building systems as the quincha, the ornamentation of Andean iconography and solutions to give new forms...
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    Rher (born in Prague). Rher took full advantage of the use of wood and quincha in the ribbed vaults, rebuilt the Renaissance stone doorway and advanced...
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    Listing Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Serranía de los Yariguíes, Serranía de las Quinchas, Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Serranía del Perijá Dimensions Length 1,200 km...
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    earthquake hit the city, which at that time was mostly built out of adobe and quincha. In the 1940s, Lima started a period of rapid growth spurred by immigration...
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    in the construction were adobe, brick and calicanto, among others. The quincha served to lighten the weight, to make the structure more flexible and to...
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    composed of two levels being the first one of adobe and the second one of quincha brava. On the first floor there is a small central courtyard with a fused...
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    but at least formerly as high as 1,200 m (3,900 ft). The Serranía de las Quinchas area in the Magdalena Valley is home to the last viable population of blue-billed...
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    tradición que apasiona como práctica deportiva". Retrieved 1 May 2021. quinchas.cl. "HISTORIA DEL RODEO". Archived from the original on 3 November 2013...
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    Carvajal‑Cogollo, Juan E. (2020-11-10). "New bird records for the Serranía de Las Quinchas, Colombia: inventory update and comments on distributions in an altitudinal...
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    building practices were modified, with the adobe style abandoned for quincha (wattle and daub) construction techniques, which resulted in more flexible...
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    colonization of Mexico. An anti-seismic technique for building called quincha was adapted from local Peruvian practice for domes and became universally...
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  • architecture Queen Anne style architecture in the United States Queenslander Quincha Quoin Qutb Shahi architecture Rafter Raised floor Rampart Ranch-style house...
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  • Season Champion 2008 Deportivo Palpa 2009 Unión Huaral 2010 Santa Rosa La Quincha 2011 Unión Huaral 2012 Unión Huaral 2013 Defensor Los Tilos 2014 Aurora...
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    Quechua as 'hedge of sticks', as often made from dead old quinoa plants (see quincha). Quinchamalium chilense is a herbaceous, hemiparasitic, perennial plant...
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  • damage was comparable to Lima; two churches toppled and some dilapidated quincha buildings suffered from collapsed walls. List of earthquakes in Peru List...
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