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  2. Andes - Wikipedia

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    These ranges are in turn grouped into three major divisions based on climate: the Tropical Andes, the Dry Andes, and the Wet Andes. The Andes are the highest mountain range outside of Asia . The range's highest peak, Argentina's Aconcagua , rises to an elevation of about 6,961 m (22,838 ft) above sea level.

  3. Páramo - Wikipedia

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    In burned and disturbed sites that were studied in the Andes the pH and phosphorus concentration in the soil are higher than in non-burned sites. [20] Erosion in a páramo, caused by wind and overgrazing. Climate change is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for páramo ecosystems. Growing populations in Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador ...

  4. Climate of Peru - Wikipedia

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    The chain of mountains called the Andes, comprising 28 percent of the national territory, runs the length of Peru, a narrow 80 km (50 miles) wide at the Ecuadorian border in the north and 350 km (220 miles) wide in the south along the border with Bolivia. The Andes, with elevations almost entirely above 2,000 m (6,600 ft) and mostly above 3,000 ...

  5. Andean orogeny - Wikipedia

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    Simplified sketch of the present-situation along most of the Andes. The Andean orogeny (Spanish: Orogenia andina) is an ongoing process of orogeny that began in the Early Jurassic and is responsible for the rise of the Andes mountains. The orogeny is driven by a reactivation of a long-lived subduction system along the western margin of South ...

  6. Tropical Andes - Wikipedia

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    The Tropical Andes are located in South America following the path of the Andes. They run, mainly, through five countries, Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , and Bolivia . The land initially was roughly 1,258,000 km 2 (486,000 sq mi) but has decreased to 314,500 km 2 (121,400 sq mi), leaving 25% of the original land.

  7. See photos of the real 1972 Andes plane crash that inspired ...

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    The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...

  8. Chacaltaya - Wikipedia

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    Chacaltaya (Mollo language for "bridge of winds" or "winds meeting point" [citation needed], Aymara for "cold road" [1] [dubious – discuss]) is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes. Its elevation is 5,421 meters (17,785 ft).

  9. Dry Andes - Wikipedia

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    Map of the climatic regions of the Andes. The Dry Andes are shown in yellow. The Tropical Andes are shown in green and the Wet Andes in dark blue. The Dry Andes (Spanish: Andes áridos) is a climatic and glaciological subregion of the Andes. Together with the Wet Andes it is one of the two subregions of the Argentine and Chilean Andes.