The Andean Volcanic Belt is a tectonically active region along ... mostly concentrated over a few months. These cold desert conditions make the region highly sensitive to environmental disturbances.

Quebrada de Humahuaca follows the line of a major cultural route, the Camino Inca, along the spectacular valley of the Rio Grande, from its source in the cold high desert plateau of the High Andean ...

Since they became widely known in the late 1920s, when commercial air travel was introduced between Lima and the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa, the mysterious desert drawings known as the ...

Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe ... Kosok called the 310 square mile stretch of high desert “the largest astronomy book in the world”. Kosok was followed by the German Maria ...

"The Peruvian Andes are not prepared for wildfires ... This makes the Arequipa region a "cold desert," with temperatures ranging from 4 to 18°C. The vegetation consists mainly of highly drought ...