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The Ballestas islands, has U broad of Paracas, are over-populated penguins, petrels, cormorants and other water birds, producing of guano whose layers were known of Incas, which made them exploit. At the beginning of the intensive extraction of guano, since 1870, the layer of the layer did not measure less than 30 meters thickness.
The Peruvians now collect the guano or the fiente of birds every 2 years

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