Coming to prominence during the rubber fever of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of political turmoil, a pla

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We swim in turquoise water and build castles on the beach. We climb up rocks or watch from docks, To see the gray whales breach.

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