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Lorraine Caputo journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Internationally published poet, travel writer and artist. Translator. Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com

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Tomorrow is International Women’s Day.

But we are celebrating women all throughout March.

Let’s visit our sisters in ...

Women of Ecuador
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Safe Journeys!

#InternationalWomensDay #women #Ecuador #travel #photography

07.03.2026 21:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ANNIE S. PECK – A South America Explorer One day while in Quito (Ecuador), I stopped by the The English Bookshop. There I found an intriguing book, Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America’s First Women Explorers. Elizab…

Happy Women’s History Month!

Let’s salute pioneer woman traveler

ANNIE S. PECK – A South America Explorer
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Safe Journeys!

#WomensHistoryMonth #AnniePeck #MountainClimbing #Peru
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts

06.03.2026 20:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ : His Macondo, Aracataca One of Latin America’s greatest writers is Gabriel García Márquez. He was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in the midst of United Fruit Company’s banana plantations, on 6 March 1927. The great author d…

6 March 1927, Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was born.

Let’s visit his birthplace …

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ : His Macondo, Aracataca
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Safe Journeys!

#GabrielGarciaMarquez #Colombia #Aracataca #travel #travelogue #TravelNarrative

06.03.2026 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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5 March is ABSINTHE DAY :

“L’Absinthe” in Storyteller Poetry Review (Super-Sized Series: Ekphrastic Poems Part 2, 18 October 2024)
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Safe Journeys!

#AbsintheDay #absinthe #poetry #EkphrasticPoetry #EdgarDegas

05.03.2026 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Enjoy my poetic tributes to …

Women of Latin America – South America
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Safe Journeys!

#WomensHistoryMonth #Travel #Poetry #TravelPoetry #SouthAmerica
#traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

04.03.2026 20:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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100% Humano
Edición ~ Traducción ~ Redacción de Contenido
Literario ~ Académico ~ Viajes

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#redaccion #inglés #articulos #traduccion #español #academica #literaria #viajes #PeriodismoDeViajes

04.03.2026 19:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Caputo Communications 100 % Human Editing   ~  Translations   ~  Content Writing Literary   ~  Academic   ~  Travel º For more information, please write to: lorrainecaputoc[at]gmail[dot]com Let’s discuss your proj…

Reach for the moon with your writing project!

100% Human
#Editing ~ #Translation ~ Content Writing
#Literary ~ #Academic ~ #Travel

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#WritingEditingPublishing
#proofreading #ContentWriting #Spanish

04.03.2026 19:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Every Tuesday during the month of March, we visit sisters in South American countries.

Women of Latin America – #Colombia
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Safe Journeys!

#InternationalWomensDay #photography
#traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

03.03.2026 12:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FULL MOON SEASONS º The starry skies change remarkably once you journey south of the equator. One heavenly body, though, remains pretty much the same: la luna, a lua, the moon. The positions of her horns change dire…

FULL MOON SEASONS
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Safe Journeys!

#LunarEclipse #eclipse #moon #travel #poetry #TravelPoetry #LatinAmerica #SouthAmerica
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

02.03.2026 19:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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STARGAZING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE º I’m a Northern Hemisphere born and raised gal. The night sky has always fascinated me: the passage of the seasons marked by the equinoxes and solstices, the passage of the moon from full to new t…

STARGAZING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
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Safe Journeys!

#LunarEclipse #eclipse #moon #astronomy #LatinAmerica #SouthAmerica
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

02.03.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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STARGAZING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE º I’m a Northern Hemisphere born and raised gal. The night sky has always fascinated me: the passage of the seasons marked by the equinoxes and solstices, the passage of the moon from full to new t…

Tonight and into tomorrow morning (2-3 March 2026), a total #eclipse will be visible in some parts of the Americas.

Prepare for this night of celestial wonders:

#LunarEclipse #moon #astronomy #LatinAmerica #SouthAmerica
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

02.03.2026 19:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCE Sensitivity Warning: Sexual assault content. º º Clouds still fill the sky enough to disappear the stars, but not the three-quarter moon. Its light slithers across the blackened water. I lean again…

Happy Women’s History Month!

And happy First Sunday of the month, when we journey through one of my travel narratives (trigger warning).

BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCE
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Safe Journeys!

#Honduras #Travelogue #SexualAssault

01.03.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THE WELSH HEARTLAND OF ARGENTINA’S PATAGONIA Y mae Patagonia yn annwyl i mi, Gwlad newydd y Cymry mwyneiddlon yw hi; Anadlu gwir ryddid a gawn yn y wlad, O gyrhaedd gormesiaeth a brad: Cytgan: Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad, Tra h…

HAPPY DYDD GŴYL DEWI!

1 March is St David, patron of the #Welsh, is fêted.

Let’s visit …

THE WELSH HEARTLAND OF ARGENTINA’S #PATAGONIA
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Safe Journeys!

#Argentina
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

01.03.2026 12:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With an hour left to spare on the deadline, I submitted a travel narrative for a big prize ... 🤞

28.02.2026 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orinoco Plains | Lorraine Caputo Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar V...

28 February 1788, San Fernando de Apure was founded in the #Llanos of #Venezuela.

My latest poetry chapbook takes you there:

Orinoco Plains
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Safe Journeys!

#Orinoco #travel #poetry #TravelPoetry
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts

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27 February 1812, in Rosario, Manuel Belgrano raised the Argentina flag for the first time.

Every year, a ceremony is held at the Monumento a la Bandera in that city.

Safe Journeys!

#Argentina #Rosario #bandera #belgrano
#traveladdicts #travelbugsworld

27.02.2026 21:36 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Recipe Corner : CHILI The changing seasons herald steaming bowls of Chili. The instable weather of the coming Spring and of Autumn’s end are the times to sit down to this gut-warming classic of Capsicum ho…

The fourth Thursday in February is CHILI DAY!

Stew up a pot of my …

CHILI
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¡Buen provecho!

Safe Journeys!

#ChiliDay #chili #recipe #vegetarian

26.02.2026 19:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Recipe Corner : SEAFOOD CHOWDER Earlier this week, Pilar posted on facebook about waiting for a snowstorm to hit her hometown. She lives in Punta Arenas, at the far tip of Chile, on the Magellan Straight. How insane, I tho…

Happy CLAM CHOWDER DAY!

One of my great experiments in a hostel kitchen in the middle of winter in southern Chile was this delight:

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¡Buen Provecho!

Safe Journeys!

#ClamChowder #SeafoodChowder #Recipe

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100% Humano
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¿Tiene un proyecto de escritura en mente?

¡Hablemos de sus visiones y necesidades creativas!
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Caputo Communications 100 % Human Editing   ~  Translations   ~  Content Writing Literary   ~  Academic   ~  Travel º For more information, please write to: lorrainecaputoc[at]gmail[dot]com Let’s discuss your proj…

Reach for the moon with your writing project!

100% Human
Editing ~ Translation ~ Content Writing
Literary ~ Academic ~ Travel

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(image shows woman reaching for the moon)

#WritingEditingPublishing

25.02.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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On Cerro Ñielol. Temuco, Chile. photo © Lorraine Caputo

24 February 1881, Fort Recabarren is founded in Chile’s Lake district, on the frontier of Araucanía. This settlement will late be called Temuco.

#history #temuco #chile

25.02.2026 01:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A HEALTHIER BANANA CAKE A healthier banana cake – and would you believe with no butter or oil, and only half the usual sugar?!

read-day-february-23

Celebrate with my special recipe …

A Healthier Banana Cake
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Safe Journeys!

#recipe #banana #BananaCake #BananaBreadDay #BananaBread

24.02.2026 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The last Sunday of the month?

Another collection of my published poetry hot off the press!

Galápagos Nights
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Safe Journeys!

#galapagos #GalapagosIslands #trvael #TravelPoetry #poetry
#travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts

23.02.2026 02:45 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SCRAMBLED EGGS – Latin American Style! In my many kilometers of traveling through the Americas, I have become convinced that the worst-value meal to eat out is breakfast. To put it bluntly, it can be relatively expensive – sometimes cos…

… and the latest addition to the Latin America Wanderer Recipe Corner:

Scrambled Eggs – Latin American Style
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¡Buen provecho!

#Recipe #breakfast #brunch #jam #pancakes #eggs

21.02.2026 00:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Recipe Corner : PANCAKES – Sweet & Savory Pancakes are the perfect meal at home or on the road. And they’re not just for breakfast!

Pancakes – Sweet & Savory
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#Recipe #breakfast #brunch #jam #pancakes #eggs

21.02.2026 00:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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FRESH FRUIT JAM Sometimes you just want a special touch of home with your breakfast – perhaps a bit of jam on your bread. But in Latin America, store-bought jams (mermelada) can be expensive and super-loaded with …

Fresh Fruit Jam
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For many, tomorrow is market day.

While you’re out getting the week’s groceries, pick up what you’ll need for a wonderful Sunday breakfast (or brunch).

Here are some of my special recipes you may want to add to the menu:

#Recipe #breakfast #brunch #jam #pancakes #eggs

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Servicios Editoriales – Caputo Communications 100% Humano Edición ~ Traducción ~ Redacción de Contenido Literario ~ Académico ~ Viajes  º ¿Tiene un proyecto de escritura en mente? ¡Hablemos de sus visiones y necesidades creativas! lorrainecapu…

100% Humano
Edición ~ Traducción ~ Redacción de Contenido
Literario ~ Académico ~ Viajes

¿Tiene un proyecto de escritura en mente?

¡Hablemos de sus visiones y necesidades creativas!
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Caputo Communications 100 % Human Editing   ~  Translations   ~  Content Writing Literary   ~  Academic   ~  Travel º For more information, please write to: lorrainecaputoc[at]gmail[dot]com Let’s discuss your proj…

Reach for the moon with your writing project!

100% Human
Editing ~ Translation ~ Content Writing
Literary ~ Academic ~ Travel

latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com/caputo-commu...

(image shows woman reaching for the moon)

#WritingEditingPublishing

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Servicios Editoriales – Caputo Communications 100% Humano Edición ~ Traducción ~ Redacción de Contenido Literario ~ Académico ~ Viajes  º ¿Tiene un proyecto de escritura en mente? ¡Hablemos de sus visiones y necesidades creativas! lorrainecapu…

100% Humano
Edición ~ Traducción ~ Redacción de Contenido
Literario ~ Académico ~ Viajes

¿Tiene un proyecto de escritura en mente?

¡Hablemos de sus visiones y necesidades creativas!
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