The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average ...

Pachamama,” said our guide, Orlando Condori. He tilted his glass, pouring some blush-colored wine onto the parched sand.

As one of Venezuela’s three highland states on the Andes plateau, Trujillo has a strong agricultural sector, he noted, adding ...

Much of the mining takes place in the nearby red "Cerro Rico" (literally, "Rich Mountain" in English), which was given its ...

The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for thousands of square miles atop a high, dry Andean plateau in Bolivia.

Iruya offers trekkers a real taste of the desert country, with incredible views of the Andean Plateau and otherworldly Argentina landscapes. Read more: 12 Most Underrated Travel Destinations ...

Andean flamingos fly over a lake in the Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve in the southern part of Bolivia. We were at a table set out on a plateau overlooking the Cordillera de Sama Biological ...

conditioning the morphostructure of the Andean chain and the current geoforms of the foreland.

The world’s largest known lithium deposit lies within the vast Salar de Uyuni, a sprawling salt pan that covers thousands of square miles atop a high, arid Andean plateau in Bolivia. For much of the ...