Maloka Dome Theater Facade
Maloka may refer to: * Maloca, a type of house used by indigenous people of the Amazon * Maloka Museum, a museum of sciences in Bogotá, Colombia * 79889 Maloka, a minor planet See also * Mallorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

Maloca
A maloca is an ancestral long house used by indigenous people of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each community has a maloca with its own unique characteristics. Several families with patrilineal relations live together in a maloca, distributed around the long house in different compartments. In general, the chief of the local descent group lives in the compartment nearest to the back wall of the long house. As well, each family has its own furnace. During festivals and in formal ceremonies, which involve dances for males, the long house space is rearranged; the centre of the long house is the most important area where the dance takes place. Each maloca has two entrances, for men and for women. Married men and women sleep together, and unmarried men sleep separately, as do unmarried women. A maloca is traditionally surrounded with two gardens: the inner called the kitchen gardens (growing plants such as bananas, papaya, mango and pineapple) and the manioc gardens g ...
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Maloka Museum
The Maloka Museum is an interactive science museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. Visitors interact with a wide variety of exhibits that explore topics in science and technology. The museum has 9 rooms, with different science and technology topics; the Telecommunications Room shows interactive games about the Binary System, the Computers' language, how cellphones work and the communication process. The next room is The City: it shows different modules where you can see 3D images of Bogotá with glasses, the development and history of the city, and a model of the city showing all the buildings in it. The Human is a room where visitors can explore the perfect machine: the human body. The Universe room is one of the most popular rooms in the museum, where visitors can do experiments, such as knowing a person's weight on the various planets of Solar System. Petroleum is another room located on the second floor. There one can see the process of exploring and exploiting that treasure ...
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