The Central Andean Plateau is defined by the Puna and Altiplano high plateaus and was first formed when the Nazca plate slid beneath the South American plate during the well-documented plate ...

The Central Andean Plateau consists of the Puna and Altiplano plateaus — a roughly 1,120-mile-long (1,800 kilometers), 250-mile-wide (400 km) expanse that stretches from northern Peru through ...

Led by first author Dr. Heiko Pingel, a geoscientist at the University of Potsdam, Mulch and an international research team studied the uplift of the Puna Plateau in the south-central Andes in ...

A rural village in the countryside on the Andean Plateau in the Andes mountains in Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia, in 2019. Marica van der Meer / Getty Images file March 31, 2025, 3:52 PM EDT ...

Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago.

The Central Andean Plateau is defined by the Puna and Altiplano high plateaus and was first formed when the Nazca plate slid beneath the South American plate during the well-documented plate tectonics ...