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Bookmark or Share- Andes Mountains | Definition, Map, Plate Boundary, & Location - BritannicaThe Andean mountain system is the result of global plate-tectonic forces during the Cenozoic Era (roughly the past 65 million years) that built upon earlier geologic activity. About 250 million years ago the crustal plates constituting the Earth’s landmass were joined together into the supercontinent Pangaea .
- Andean peoples | Pre-Columbian Cultures, Indigenous Tribes & History ...Andean peoples, aboriginal inhabitants of the area of the Central Andes in South America.. Although the Andes Mountains extend from Venezuela to the southern tip of the continent, it is conventional to call “Andean” only the people who were once part of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca Empire in the Central Andes, or those influenced by it. Even so, the Andean region is very wide.
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