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Eduardo Méliton Jovel Ayala

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The ethnobotany of the Mestizo people of Suni Mirano, Peru

cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2009 Eduardo Méliton Jovel Ayala

The present invasion and depletion of the Peruvian forest continues to erode the traditional knowledge accumulated in the Amazon Basin. Many Indigenous cultures have flourish in the Amazon Basin for at least the last 3,000 years (Lathrap, 1970) while Mestizo culture began approximately 500 years ago, with the arrival of European and other Old World explorers. The richness in biological and...