Iglu - etymology
Coming from the Inuit language, a Native American language family native language characterized eskimo-Melua, who speaks in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia, igloo designates a house, a house located in any habitat with snow. It is also translated as snowhouse or snow house, even if it means house igloo traditionally made of any material.
Architecture
Iglu, structure, Inuit architecture is characterized as a building block of snow, arranged in the shape of a dome, tunnel entry form. When properly constructed inside an igloo temperature can be kept between -7 ° C and 16 ° C, without a source of heat than the body, even if outside temperature reaches -45 ° C. In such a construction can fit 15-20 people.
In these rooms do not live all year round, but during the hunt.
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