List of Foucault Pendulums - Central and South America

Central and South America

  • Centro de Estudios Científicos, Costanera de la Ciencia, Valdivia, Chile
  • Colegio San Francisco Javier, Puerto Montt, Chile
  • Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
  • School of Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Length: 27.35 m. Period: 10.4 secs)
  • Museum of Science and Technology, Engineering School, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Museu do Universo at the planetarium of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Central Library of the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela

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