Local girl at entrance to 300-yr old church at Santiago Tlazoyaltepec, municipality of Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Vegetable dye vendor with her wares at Pisac market, Cusco, Peru.

Entrance to the Colca canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world, Arequipa, Peru.

Nest of tuiuiu stork (Jabiru mycteria), symbol of the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Statue of Reedeming Christ on a hill overlooking Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Tribal women washing at river bank in the state of Karnataka, Southern India.

A toucan in the wild, Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Zapotec remains of Monte Alban near Oaxaca, Mexico.

On the banks of the São Francisco river at its mouth near Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil. Note palm and cactus growing side by side.

Ski-jump spillway at Oros dam and reservoir, state of Ceara, Northeastern Brazil.

A caiman (caiman yacare) on the banks of the Rio São Lourenço, Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

A Caboclo, a local rural worker, handling a herd of buffalo in the flood plains of the Araguari river, in Amapa, northern Brazil.

A large turtle in the wild on the Pantanal do Itiquira, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Detail of the remains of the great mixteca civilization at Mitla, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico.