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Three of the New 7 Wonders of the World are from Latin America

In an official declaration ceremony on 07.07.07 in Lisbon (Portugal), the New 7 Wonders of the World were announced. As you can see, three of the new 7 wonders of the Latin American countries (Brazil, Peru and Mexico). The official list of New 7 Wonders of the World-The Great Wall of China,-The ruins of Petra in Jordan, the Chichén Itzá pyramid in Mexico, the Statue of Christ Redeemer in Brazil, the Colosseum, from Italy, Machu Picchu, Peru, the Taj Mahal, India was chosen as 7 new wonders of the world? The campaign was to choose the New 7 Wonders of the World started in 1999 by Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber. His New7Wonders Foundation received about 200,000 nominations from around the world. The cast was held during the last six years. More than 100 million votes were cast worldwide. Voices of mobile phone (SMS) and on the official website of the New7Wonders campaignA official ceremony was held las t adopted 7th July (interesting that it takes to 7:07:07). Many celebrities were among famous Spanish opera singer Jose Carreras and the U.S., popular idol Jennifer Lopez invited. Even among the celebrities at the ceremony were: Neil Armstrong, Bertrand Piccard, Frederico Mayor, and famous footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.Many sites outside of the sites were originally proposed left over time. Among the locations originally proposed that not make the cut are: Isla de Pascua, Chile, Angkor, from Camboya: Hagia Sofia, Turkey, the Kremlin in Russia, etc. The count of more than 100 million votes select the jury the New 7 Wonders indicated above. Interestingly enough, went 42.87% of the vote on the part of the American continent, and specifically to three sites in Latin America. Three countries (Brazil, Peru and Mexico) have the honor to countries that one of the new 7 wonders of the world within their territory.Since the Giza pyramids, the only wonder of the original that has withstood the passage of time, think of it is called "honorary wonder of the world" in addition to the New 7 Wonders of the selected New7Wonders campaign.Here a brief description of each new wonder of the world in Latin America.The Chichén Itzá pyramid is located, from chich'en MexicoChichen Itza (from Yucatec Maya Itza "," At the mouth of the well of the Itza ") is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the northern center of the Yucatan Peninsula built today contains many fine stone buildings Mexico.The site at various stages of preservation, buildings were formerly used as temples, palaces, stages, markets, baths and ballcourts.Chichen Itza is now a World Heritage Site and is the second most visited archaeological sites in Mexico. Many visitors to the popular resort of Cancun, take a day trip to Chichen Itza, usually with time to only a portion of the view of PerúMachu site.Machu Picchu Picchu sometimes the "Lost City. # A pre-Columbian city of the Inca empire is. Machu Picchu is created above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 44 miles northwest of Cusco. Since 1983 the site as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Machu located Picchu known was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca empire and was less than 100 years later abandoned, because the kingdom conquest of Spain . The collapse of the "Lost City" is made of 140 constructions including temples, sanctuaries, parks and residences, houses with thatched roofs.The statue of Christ Redeemer, the Savior from brazil christ (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor), is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The statue stands 105 feet tall, weighs 700 tons and is. is on the peak of the 2296-meter Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro. The statue is an icon of Rio and Brazil, although it was originally created as a powerful symbol of Christianity. The monument was on 12 Opened in October 1931.The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a press release on 20 June 2007, it confirmed no connection with the initiative. One of the main criticism that the selection of the new 7 wonders of the world only reflect the opinion of the people who have access to the Internet and not by all citizens of the world. Sources: Press release http://www.new7wonders.comUnesco.org URL. http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php- URL_ID = 38 482 & URL_DO = DO_TOPIC & URL_SECTION = 201.html

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