Huascaran National Park Snow-capped peaks in the peruvian Andes, Huascaran National Park Mountain Villagers in traditional clothing, at the Q'eswachaka bridge festival, Peru Panorama of Mountains ...

Along the highest points of the Andes, the rolling mountaintops can get cold. Animals there, including small amphibians far from their tropical rainforest relatives, have to be built to withstand ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Vinicunca, a Quechua word, translates to "coloured mountain". It's also known as the mountain of seven colours ...

they are trying to scale eight mountains above 6000m in the Andes. For themselves, but also and in particular as a mark of emancipation. These women are members of the Aymara, the indigenous ...

Peru's oil and gas production is relatively modest at present. But the recent discovery of reserves under the foothills east of the Andes mountains in the north of the country offers the prospect ...

The prices of major minerals have significantly increased in recent years, a situation that, for a country like Peru, represents an important opportunity to improve the quality of life of its ...

Lake Titicaca is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains, on the border of Bolivia and Peru. With a surface elevation of 12,507 feet (3,812 metres), it is often called the highest navigable ...

Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the Andes Mountains, BGSU researchers found a species of hummingbird is living cohesively with its peers.

Develop forest management systems that support the conservation and use of forest ecosystem services There are concerns about deterioration of ecosystem functions in mountain forest ecosystems from ...