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ICE IN TROPICAL CLIMATE

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Tropical region are the areas of the earth surface near the equator and between tropic of cancer in the northern hemisphere and the tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere(23.5N and 23.5S the equtor). this climate characterize by average temperature of 18 centigrade  and annual precipitation is little which tend to fall behind mountain ranges( horse latitude ) that cause rain shadow. examples of areas with tropical climate is some part of Tanzania ,Africa and south America. a world map to show different parts with tropical climate according  to different geographers and scientist they argue that it is impossible to find a ice cover in a tropical climate region due to it is characteristics . but in Tanzania at the top of mount Kilimanjaro there is ice cover  that makes people from different parts of the world to visit mount Kilimanjaro to see how and what make that possible mount Kilimanjaro is the highest volcanic mount in Africa rise above the sea level about 5895 meters.This m

AMAZING PEOPLE

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 By   cyril chami   The amazing  People of Kilimanjaro . If you look at Kilimanjaro’s history, one culture stands out as being intimately tied to the mountain: the Chagga. But the Chagga didn’t live around the foothills of Kili in isolation, and in fact, for several centuries, they weren’t a unified culture at all. Much like their neighbors (and longtime adversaries) the Maasai, the Chagga peoples were divided into multiple clans, which were then further divided into  mitaa , or petty chiefdoms. Today, these clans have consciously come together to form the modern Chagga culture. But as recently as the turn of the 20th century, they were at war with not only their neighbors, but with one another. Each clan had a distinctive territory along the southern and eastern slopes of the mountain. Natural boundaries—including ridges, rocky outcroppings, and ravines—usually defined the borders between one clan’s land and another’s.    Today we think of the Chagga as one people, but formerly, 15 s