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Sputtering volcano viewed from Pacific coastal plain.

Sputtering volcano viewed from Pacific coastal plain. Quiché agricultural landscape near Totonicapan ( “ Toto), Guatemala. Terraces were a Mesoamerican subsistence strategy discussed by Dr. West. Quiche terraces on the slopes near Toto.

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Sputtering volcano viewed from Pacific coastal plain.

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  1. Sputtering volcano viewed from Pacific coastal plain.

  2. Quiché agricultural landscape near Totonicapan (“Toto), Guatemala. Terraces were a Mesoamerican subsistence strategy discussed by Dr. West.

  3. Quiche terraces on the slopes near Toto.

  4. One of the Quiché hamlets, aldeas, that surround Toto shows how farmers blend forestry and agricultural production.

  5. Quiche terraces up close.

  6. Sunday market in Patzun, a Cakchiquel village about 8 miles east of Lago Atitlan. Note how the women’s blouses, huipils, and skirts are all the same. In Mayan villages, dress is a means of identification.

  7. Sunday market in Patzun.

  8. Sunday market in Patzun. Although dress is traditional and indigenous, external influences are obvious.

  9. An initial demand for cool weather vegetables came from German coffee farmers who settled in Guatemala beginning in the 1870s. Their homes punctuate settlements in Central America’s coffee growing regions.

  10. German coffee pioneer’s house in Coban, Guatemala.

  11. Formerly German-owned coffee finca near Mazatenango, Guatemala.

  12. Coban, Guatemala

  13. Almolonga market. The people of Almolonga are Quiché. They have their own village weaving pattern for huipils too.

  14. Almolonga market. Hand-cranked ferris wheel.

  15. Almolonga Valley: in the basin of an ancient volcanic caldera, elevation=7,385 ft.

  16. Minifundia? The 0.74 sq. miles (~473 acres) of cultivable flat land is divided into numerous small private plots, most of them less than an acre in area.

  17. Non-irrigated. Irrigated.

  18. Cabbage, canal, pesticide application.

  19. Fertile organic soil, hoes, miniature plots.

  20. Planting onions.

  21. Washing carrots before shipping.

  22. Produce transport.

  23. Pesticide disposal.

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