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The ski resort Olympians flock to each summer
For many, a modern-day ski resort might include towering peaks cloaked in fluffy snow, high-tech lift lines, luxurious hotels ...
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10 Breathtaking South American Wonders That Seem Out of This World
Mount Roraima is a colossal cathedral of stone, a tabletop mountain straddling the borders of Venezuela, Brazil ...
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Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers
La Corona, Venezuela’s last standing glacier in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida National Park, was reclassified as an ice field, ...
Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes
Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...
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How an Ancestral Peruvian Ceremony Is Saving the Once-Endangered Vicuña
Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear ...
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Tiwanaku: A little-known pre-Incan civilization that built temples and cities high in the Andes
The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...
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3,500-Year-Old City Located in Peruvian Andes
Reuters reports that Peruvian authorities announced the discovery of a major lost ancient city in the country’s Barranca ...
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The Complete List of 15 Animals with Bushy Tails - A-Z Animals
©ATTILA Barsan/Shutterstock.com While chinchillas have become common pets, they originate from the Andes Mountains in South America. There, the social animals with bushy tails live in groups called ...