Drive just 10km east from Papallacta and you enter the Amazon Basin's cloud forest, which covers the slopes and the valley in green growth.

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It has since become a reference to any region with a high-tech economy Silicon Alley ( New York), Silicon Prairie (Midwest), Silicon Forest (Northwest), Silicon Slopes (Utah), Silicon Hills (Texas).

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Where once there were only barren slopes, dotted with ovens used to produce chalk, forest now grows down to the hotel's edge.

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