That collapsed a decade ago, its herds and land split up among families.Dozens of official reports, plans and national strategies, and promises of technical help, have failed to overcome a vicious circle: most herders are poor, have too few animals, and cannot afford the improvements in breeding, pasture management and shearing needed to raise fibre quality and yield.
With the villages spread out along roads and farming land split up into small plots, the environment experienced by persons from different villages or from different locations did not vary greatly.
Following the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution (1922), Zoque communities were assigned ejidos, communal lands split into specific parcels for farming and cultivation.
The latter, an outrageous soul showcase for Melvin Clarke, Jeremiah Tatum, Maurice Watson and Kenji Yamaguchi, wowed: Think gorgeous gazelles bounding through the air before landing split-legged.
Bonham played rope-a-dope with the clock: sometimes his accents arrive a tiny bit behind the beat; at others, they land a split second ahead.
In the United States, the three national networks, once watched by almost every sentient being in the land, now split fewer than half the audience between them each night.
Although large, its poorly equipped land forces, split between the regular army and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are structured to prevent coups and conduct irregular warfare against an aggressor, rather than to threaten neighbours.
Interestingly, one of these resolutions is for the posts of chairman and chief executive at British Land be split by September, and that the chairmanship becomes a non-executive role.
On Atlantic-facing beaches in two countries, Ms. Papageorge, who lives in South Africa, set up long banners of blood-red fabric to represent the line of breakage that formed, many millions of years ago, when a single great southern land mass split into separate continents.
This photo shows how land is split up into strips for farmers in Bolivia.
In India, as land is split between families and the cost of farming increases, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder asks if the country can feed its 1.2bn people.
