Sentence examples for indian highlands from inspiring English sources
Last year, Haiti was hit twice, the second time by a tropical storm, Jeanne, which killed an estimated 3,000.This time it was the turn of the Mayan Indian highlands of Guatemala.
That conflicts with what an insider calls the government's "spontaneous tendency towards totalitarianism .Behind the autonomy question lies Bolivia's regional divide, between the poor, mainly Andean Indian, highlands in the west and the four departments of the predominantly mestizo (mixed race), more prosperous east and north.
It wasn't until British merchants in India discovered that opium produced in the Indian highlands could be very profitably sold in vast quantities in China that the lopsided balance of trade with China began to reverse.
The central Indian highlands landscape has been severely modified over the past few centuries, leading to extreme fragmentation of historically contiguous habitat (Table 3, Rangarajan 1999).
Similarly, altitude plays an important role as the distribution almost discontinues near the Himalayan foothill area and different parts of central Indian highlands.
The study landscape is located in the central Indian highlands and represents an area of approximately 45 000 km in the Satpura-Maikal landscape (21.15 N 76.50 E, 22.80 N- 81.05 E).
They also want more explicit guarantees of regional autonomy.Narrow though the differences seem, the constitution is only part of a broader political battle between two Bolivias: the poorer, mainly Indian western highlands still revere Mr Morales, while the opposition is led by the regional prefects of the more prosperous eastern departments.
In this idyllic spot in the Kashmir highlands, Indian troops hold ground overlooked on three sides by Pakistani troops, some well within artillery range.
From an early age, Che developed a strong sense of social justice.The Guevaras moved back to Buenos Aires, in the early nineteen-fifties, by which time Ernesto and Celia had split, and the family employed a Bolivian maid, Sabina, a Quechua-speaking Aymara Indian from the highlands who spoke little Spanish.
Pocomam, also spelled Pokomam, Mayan Indians of the highlands of eastern Guatemala.
Textiles remain an important highland Indian craft to the present day.
