the latitude of the widest part of the north–south-trending Andes. The bulk of the Altiplano lies in Bolivia, but its northern parts lie in Peru, and its...
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Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. The altiplano corresponds to the ancient territory of the Muisca. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense...
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The Andes (/ˈændiːz/ AN-deez), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes; Quechua: Anti) are the longest continental...
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the Andes. It is located in the Altiplano area, a highland bounded by the Bolivian Cordillera Real in the east and by the main chain of the Andes, the...
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Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) (redirect from Cordillera de los Andes Oriental)
Park Andes portal Colombia portal Mountains portal Geography of Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Bogotá savanna, Tenza Valley Cordillera Central, Occidental...
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floor of the Altiplano rises again, creating hills and volcanoes that span the gap between the eastern and western cordilleras of the Andes. The much older...
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The Altiplano-Puna Magma Body (APMB), a magma body located within the Altiplano-Puna plateau approximately 10–20 km beneath the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic...
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Andean orogeny (redirect from Andes orogeny)
creating sedimentary basins east of it. At the same time the Andes around the Altiplano region broadened to exceed any other Andean segment in width....
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The Altiplano Basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Altiplano) is a sedimentary basin within the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. The basin is located on the Altiplano plateau...
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Abrothrix jelskii (redirect from Jelski's Altiplano Mouse)
genus Abrothrix of family Cricetidae. It is found in the altiplano habitat of the Andes from central Peru through Bolivia into northwestern Argentina. Populations...
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(also Jaqi or Aru) is one of the two dominant language families in the central Andes alongside Quechuan. The family consists of Aymara, widely spoken in...
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Geology of Bolivia (section Altiplano plateau)
question among geologists. Today the Altiplano is believed to have been an early foreland basin of the "proto-Andes" that got uplifted by crustal shortening...
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Plateau between the Himalayas and Kunlun Mountains, Altiplano plateau between two ranges of Andes. Lava or volcanic plateaus are the plateau that occur...
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Lake Tauca (redirect from Central Andean Pluvial Event)
Lake Tauca is a former lake in the Altiplano of Bolivia. It is also known as Lake Pocoyu for its constituent lakes: Lake Poopó, Salar de Coipasa and Salar...
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The fauna of the Andes, a mountain range in South America, is large and diverse. As well as a huge variety of flora, the Andes contain many different...
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the Andes. The growth of the Altiplano high plateau commenced 25 million years ago before shifting eastward 12-6 million years ago. The Andean Central Volcanic...
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Pastoral society (section Central Asia)
Scandinavia Navajo of North America Quechua of The Andes region Aymara of The Andes and Altiplano regions One of the consequences of the break-up of the...
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Lucayan archipelago Central America Isthmus of Panama Mosquito Coast Soconusco South America Amazon basin Andes Altiplano Altiplano Cundiboyacense Puna...
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of central Brazil. Other locations featured are the Galápagos Islands and the Salar de Uyuni, the world's biggest salt lake in the Bolivian altiplano. Filming...
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Abrothrix andina (redirect from Andean altiplano mouse)
the Andean Altiplano mouse or Andean akodont, is a species of rodent in the genus Abrothrix of family Cricetidae. It is found in the Altiplano habitat of...
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batholith: U-Pb in zircon chronochemistry of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex of the Central Andes". Geosphere. 12 (4): 1054–1077. Bibcode:2016Geosp...
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ranges of the Andes and include a large district. This arid, bleak area is apparently a continuation southward of the great Altiplano, and is known as...
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natives Altiplano or Puna, a region that covers part of Bolivia, Peru, and the northern end of Argentina and Chile Puna de Atacama, a plateau in the Andes Pune...
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The Central Andean dry puna (NT1001) is an ecoregion in the montane grasslands and shrublands biome, located in the Andean Altiplano (high plateau) in...
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Aymara people (category Indigenous peoples of the Andes)
(Aymara: aymara listen), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in...
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Bofedales (category Ecology of the Andes)
"Bofedales: turberas de alta montaña de los Andes centrales" [Bofedales: high altitude peatlands of the central Andes] (PDF). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural...
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the Andes, it is considered to be part of the Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ), one of the three volcanic arcs of the Andes, and its associated Altiplano-Puna...
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this section of the Altiplano and continuous above 5,600 metres (18,373 ft). The very fertile soils from the erosion of the Andes formed the basis for...
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the province of Los Andes, and is located on the right bank of an inlet towards Lake Titicaca. The village is located on the Altiplano. It lies on the plateau...
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Bolivian Altiplano of the central Andes, which is a volcanic landscape where many small closed lake basins have been noted. The central Andes of Bolivia...
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