Peñico was established in 1800 B.C., just after the 5,000-year-old Caral civilization fell due to climate change.

Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear ...

This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

Peru draws tourists eager to explore the remnants of South America’s ancient civilisations. There’s much to uncover in this ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

In the dry, wind-swept highlands of Bolivia, a dusty hill overlooked by archaeologists and tourists alike has revealed one of ...

Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, where part of the Earth’s crust is “dripping” deep into the planet’s ...

A first look at Argentina’s Somuncurá Plateau reveals features somewhat predictable for a Patagonian steppe: shrubs, grass, plains, and rocky outcrops. Only the occasional volcanic peak breaks ...

In the Indio-American belt, stretching through the Andes plateau and Central America to Mexico, and embracing Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, there are large sections whose populations still preserve ...

Isacks, B. (1988) Uplift of the Central Andean Plateau and Bending of the Bolivian Orocline. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 3211-3231.

Can you guess the snowiest place on Earth? Dig into the snow data and take a virtual trip to the snowiest places on the planet.