Author: Mariana Balanescu South America

Lima. – In our country there is huge potential for the practice of one of the outdoor sports that arouses more emotion: The Climbing. A large scale and appropriate scenarios to also align the various national figures who practice this sport. This is the case of Juan Diego and Diego Shoobridge Cebreros, young climbers for over 3 years show their skill and professionalism in the sports field, and who now aim to climb “The Sphinx”(“La Esfinge”), considered one of the ‘big walls’ most important in South America.

Located in the Huascaran National Park, with more than 700 meters and 5300 meters, the Sphinx contains within its walls many routes, a feature that differentiates it from other walls and makes it extremely difficult. Its main attraction is its beautiful landscapes, as found in the Cordillera Blanca, the highest and most majestic in the world and through the experience can be seen behind Huandoy, the Huascaran and Alpamayo, being this last the mountain striking the planet.

Juan Diego and Diego begin this adventure on Wednesday August 1st leaving from Lima to the walls of Antacocha in Recuay, which made climbing acclimatization on Thursday 02 and leave for Huaraz at night. On Sunday 05 is mobilized to Caraz and finally made the long trek to the base of the Sphinx. From Monday 6 August embark on the path to the summit, where due to the length of the wall, it is often necessary to sleep in it, for this reason is expected to take place in about two days.

The North Face supports these two young talents in this experience that combines elements such as risk, the altitude and the beautiful scenery make it a unique project with great potential to spread this route as an excellent alternative to practice this sport.

Researchers at the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences (MACN) presented on Tuesday a new type of carnivorous dinosaur discovered in the southern province of Black River.

The species was named Bicentennial Argentina and provide key data for understanding the evolution of the ancestors of birds.

“It is very likely to be the first representative found a new lineage within the family of coelurosaurs, those dinosaurs that eventually give rise to birds,” the National Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina, in a statement.

The head of the museum and independent researcher, Fernando Novas, said that “while there within coelurosaurs members as the tyrannosaurus rex or velociraptor, not much is known about the earliest forms, the first coelurosaurs.”

The adults of Bicentenary ejemplaros have measured between 2.5 and 3 meters long. They were agile and lean. The shape of their teeth and claws indicate the presence of which would have been hunters. Researchers also believe it would have been covered with feathers.

“The fossils of primitive coelurosaurs are rare, and therefore this new species is very important,” said Steve Brusatte, Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, USA.

The discovery of this dinosaur indicates that South America, Africa and Australia had smaller species like birds than previously thought.

The rocks where the dinosaur was found are about 90 million years and correspond to the upper Cretaceous period, ie between 65 and 98 million years ago.

Last May, Argentine researchers concluded that a carnivorous dinosaur of the family of Abelisaurus was one of the largest predators of the Jurassic period in Patagonia.

The nearly complete skeleton of an adult was found in the town of Loco Juice in Chubut, between January 2009 and February 2010.

A luxury Japanese vessel, the Asuka II, left closed the 2011-2012 cruise season in Argentina’s capital, which again recorded a record of arrivals of travelers through this mode, adding 425 000 cruise passengers in the period, 22, 5% more than last year.

During the season ends so well, and according to a survey by the Entity of Tourism

of Buenos Aires, 19% of cruise passengers received were residents of Argentina, and 81% were foreign visitors. Of the foreigners, 49.9% came from neighboring countries and 26.1% from Europe, while otro14, 8% came from the United States and 6.4% ofother American countries.
An article in Clarin newspaper cited statements by Hernán Lombardi, president of the Ente Turismo and Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires, notes that these results in increasing in cruisers as landfalls are part of a global trend and should continue in future immediately.

In that sense, for the 2012-2013 season is estimated that landed in Buenos Aires about 500 thousand cruise passengers as they are already confirmed 168 recreational boat arrivals in the city.
Also highlight local tourist authorities that the cruise industry is a significant economic impact on the economy of Buenos Aires, because it generates a lot of movement and brings significant revenues from spending by cruise passengers.
In fact, the rise of this industry has been so strong in recent years in Buenos Aires that ledto that have attacked in 2011 an investment of over $ 25 million to remodel the terminal fully Quinquela Martin, specially devoted to this activity .