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Bookmark or Share- 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 Mountains | Definition, Map, Plate Boundary, & Location - BritannicaWhere are the Andes Mountains located? The Andes Mountains are a series of extremely high plateaus surmounted by even higher peaks that form an unbroken rampart over a distance of some 5,500 miles (8,900 kilometres)—from the southern tip of South America to the continent’s northernmost coast on the Caribbean.
- Andean civilization | BritannicaFor several thousand years before the Spanish invasion of Peru in 1532, a wide variety of high mountain and desert coastal kingdoms developed in western South America. The extraordinary artistic and technological achievements of these people, along with their historical continuity across centuries,…
- Andes - New World EncyclopediaThe Andes is the highest mountain range outside Asia, with the highest peak, Aconcagua, rising to 22,834 feet (6,960 m) above sea level. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the equatorial bulge.
- The Andes Mountains & Andean Region: A Comprehensive Exploration - LAC GeoThe Andes Mountains are the most extended continental mountain range on Earth. They form an unbroken highland along the western coast of the South American continent, stretching from Caribbean Venezuela in the north to the Atacama Desert and south to the cold, windy, and wet Cape Horn.
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