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The Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519 View of the Valley of Mexico from the neighborhood of San Bernabé Ocotepec, 2022. The Valley of Mexico (Spanish: Valle de México; Nahuatl languages: Anahuac, lit. 'Land Between the Waters' [1]), sometimes also called Basin of Mexico, is a highlands plateau in central Mexico.
Aconcagua (Spanish pronunciation: [akoŋˈkaɣwa]) is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera [4] of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the highest mountain in the Americas , the highest outside Asia , [ 5 ] and the highest in both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere [ 1 ] with a summit elevation of ...
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
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The Aconcagua river flows westward through the broad Aconcagua valley and enters the Pacific Ocean near the city of Concon, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Valparaíso. [ 2 ] The river has a course of about 142 kilometres (88 mi), and its waters irrigate the most populous sections [ 2 ] of the Chilean provinces of San Felipe de Aconcagua and Los ...
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"Aconcagua Valley" is a wine-producing region located 65 km (40 mi) north of Santiago in the east of the Valparaíso Region. It is a Denomination of Origin (DO) defined by the Chilean Appellation system, the legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine were grown.
The main settlements of the Inca Empire in Chile lay along the Aconcagua, Mapocho and Maipo rivers. [1] Quillota in Aconcagua Valley was likely the Incas' foremost settlement. [1] The bulk of the people conquered by the Incas in Central Chile were Diaguitas and part of the Promaucae (also called Picunches).