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Latin America: Our Neighbors at Home and to the South

Photo Analysis #1

Photographs can help us visualize landscapes, dwellings and other features of places that are unfamiliar to you. This photograph below shows a village in the altiplano region of Bolivia on the border of Chile.

Directions:
Study the photograph and then answer these questions.

Photo coutesy of Angus McIntyre. © Angus McIntyre

What is the overall subject of the Photograph?

What do you think the people of this town used to build their homes?

Where do you think the building materials came from?

Look in the center of the photograph. There is a building with a tower. What do you think that building is?

In your opinion, what does that building tell you about life in the village?