Thanks to its strategic location between the Andes, the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean, the Arica and Parinacota region was once the home of three major empires -- Tiwanacu, Inca and Spanish.

BBC: Reviving Chile's Andean heritage

This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | World 'warmest for 12,000 years'

ASEAN's founders dreamed that their organization would one day span the whole region, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, from the Red River delta to the rice padis of Java.

CNN: RETOOLING ASEAN

To showcase the threatened underwater heritage and raise public awareness, the first ever exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region on Underwater Cultural Heritage was recently opened at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok, Thailand.

UNESCO: Culture