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Forty million years may seem a lot compared to a human life, but when it comes to the forming of a mountain range such as the Andes that's incredibly fast. A study published recently reveals that a typical mountain range could double its height in as little as two million years, a couple of times faster than sug... |
6 June 2008
06:08 GMT |
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In 1527, starting from Panama, a handful of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro managed to conquer the largest empire a pre-Columbian civilization ever created. The empire of Incas stretched through the highlands of Andes, in today's Ecuador, Peru, south Columbia, western Bolivia and northwest Argentina and it nu... |
16 February 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Lake Titicaca is located at an altitude of 3,812 m (12,700 ft) in the Altiplano, a high altitude plateau in the central Andes, about 72 km (44 miles) west of La Paz, Bolivia. The lake is located at the border between Peru and Bolivia and its name means "The lake of the puma" in the Aymara language. It has a surface o... |
16 February 2008
03:27 GMT |
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The Araucans are Amerindian tribes (Mapuche, Picunche, Huiliche) habiting the Arauco area in the center of Chile which nowadays make the most of the Indigenous population in Chile. Arauco is a long valley limited by the Andes to the east, with altitudes of up to 6,000 m (20,000 ft) and by coastal low mountains to the... |
15 February 2008
17:31 GMT |
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1. The Andes, this backbone of South America, have a length of 7,600 km (4,800 mi), covering a surface of 2 million square km (800,000 square mi), and having an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft). This is the longest terrestrial mountain range (longer chains are found on the bottom of the oceans). 2. The hig... |
28 January 2008
16:07 GMT |
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You could not put this one into an armadillo race. In fact, you could not hold it. That's because ancient armadillos were really big. Now, an American team has described in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" a new large fossil species based on a partial skeleton discovered up in the Andes in northern Chile... |
13 December 2007
05:23 GMT |
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The Andes are the backbone of South America, a symbol were the greatest civilization in the New World emerged, namely the Inca Empire. Now a team of Australian geophysicists believe they might have solved the long-standing puzzle of how the Andes mountain range emerged. By making the first 3D simulations of the way c... |
15 March 2007
07:45 GMT |
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