6 An Alluring Course for Trinidad's Wetlands Text and photographs by Bjorn Sletto
A park protecting this nation's Nariva Swamp may produce more profitable currents for farmers and villagers

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14 Quito's Masters of Splendor and Tradition  by Rafael E. Tarragó
This colonial capital was the wellspring of a school of art that has shaped painters from the gilded era to the present

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20 Burle Marx: Oasis of Beauty and Knowledge by Joyce Gregory Wyels
With thousands of plants and artwork, the estate of the Brazilian landscape designer is a luxuriant public resource

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28 A Race Against Time by Kenneth R. Good Photographs by Valdir Cruz
The once-vital Yanomami communities of the Upper Orinoco now confront devastating disease and dislocation

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38 Ashen Riches of a Buried Village  Text and photographs by Payson Sheets
Nearly intact households uncovered at El Salvador's Cerén preserve valuable clues to ancient life

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46 Exposing a Heritage in Color and Light  by K. Mitchell Snow
Guatemalan photographer Maria Cristina Orive frames a cultural history in images of beauty and power

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