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Finally the drought is over in Chile. Lots of rain means lots of snow up there. So how about a little snowy Andes scenery.. finally! And how about a little panorama. No hdr needed. Oh.. Please don't say Alpine scenery. People here take it very seriously.. The Alps are in Europe hehe and people here are andinists not alpinists! Cheers!! :D
Although Nazca is in a desert of little rainfall, it has valleys fed by melted snow from the Andes, back in 2015, at least.
Lots of rain in Chile means lots of snow in the Andes!
We are having such a beautiful week-end, I had to go to up there.
We found those two by the road and the lighting was near perfect!
I love Santiago!
ps: oh and please say "Andean scenery" rather than "Alpine scenery"! ;)
Flying from Santiago to Calama, Chile (or back) is one of my favourite flight experiences.
I think it's the Nevado Tres Cruces national park region, but if I'm wrong, please correct me.
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This is Torres del Paine National Park in Chile taken across Lake Pehoe just before dawn. The three horn shaped peaks are known as the Cuernos del Paine and are just under 3000m in altitude. They are high enough to have glaciers which cleave icebergs into the lakes.
View from the plane. Flying from Patagonia to Santiago. I was lucky enough to see this display of colors in late hours of the day.
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A big bus station with not many buses...
On the journey from Arequipa in the Peruvian Andes to Tacna on the border with Chile, in the Atacama desert.
Have tacked together some rough video footage of the trip...what it's like to travel with the hoi polloi in Peru:
Puntiagudo is a snow-capped volcanic chain located in the Andes, in Los Lagos Region of Chile, near Volcán Osorno. It lies between Rupanco Lake and Todos los Santos Lake. "Volcán Puntiagudo" (Spanish for "Sharp-pointed volcano") is a stratovolcano with a prominent 2,493 m high sharp-pointed summit that results from glacial dissection and gets its name from this feature. According to locals, the Puntiagudo volcano lost some of its sharp point in the earthquake of 1960 (9,5 Ritchter). So the volcano was more pointed than it is today. Puntiagudo is also given the name Cerro Cenizas.
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The Cordillera Oriental is composed primarily of sedimentary rocks from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras (600-225 million and 225-65 million years ago respectively), with occasional more recent intrusive and volcanic centers. The rocks run the gamut of sedimentary rocks, including: sandstones, siltstones, shales, limestones, and quartzites. Volumetrically and economically, Ordovician and Silurian shales and siltstones are probably the most important sequences (formed 500-440 million and 440-395 million years age, respectively).
This mountain range is a classic locality to study structural and sedimentary geology: several cataclysmic episodes of deformation have helped shaping it, and low-angle thrust faults occur throughout the area (this type of fault decapitates entire ranges and moves massive amounts of rock several kilometers).
Mining has been taken place in that area for centuries. It is one of the most strongly mineralized mountain chains in the world, referred to as a metallogenic province. Mines and deposits show strong mineralogical zoning with a wide, heavily exploited tin-silver belt running down to the western side of the mountains. A parallel gold-antimony belt just east of the classic tin-silver belt is flanked on the far eastern side by a wide lead-zinc-silver belt. These belts are only tens of kilometers wide but are hundreds of kilometers long, running northwest to southeast. A number of theories have been proposed about the cause of this zoning, but has not been fully explained.
The highest peaks, such as Illimani, Illampu and Huayna Potosi are intrusive massifs (primarily granodiorite) punched up through the sediments during the Cenozoic era. Intrusive rocks such as granite and granodiorite are much more resistant to erosion than the shale and siltstones and therefore usually form the cores of the highest mountains. The entire Quimsa Cruz range is composed of granodiorite forming a towering massif over the surrounding sedimentary rocks.
Source: Andean Summits
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Photo: MarÃa Lloco mountain
Peru's Rte 15 reaches an eye-watering 4910m elevation on the approach to the town of Chivay, nestled inside the Colca canyon. The hulking 6000-m Hualca Hualca volcano looms on the horizon behind a field of bizarre rock formations.
I won 10 skeins of Elizabeth Austen "Andes" in Camel-Limestone.
It's a worsted weight 100% wool kettle-dyed yarn . . . now I just have to figure out what to knit with it.
Frozen lake at 4.200 meter-high. At the back, Licancabur Volcano.
Licancabur is a highly symmetrical stratovolcano on the southernmost part of the border between Chile and Bolivia. It is located just southwest of Laguna Verde in Bolivia and northwest of Juriques volcano. The volcano dominates the landscape of the Salar de Atacama area. The summit crater is about 400 m wide and contains a 70 by 90 m crater lake, Lago Licancabur, which is ice-covered most of the year. This is one of the highest lakes in the world, and despite air temperatures which can drop to -30 °C, it contains planktonic fauna.
Licancabur's most recent volcanic activity produced extensive lava flows which extend 6 km down the northwest and southwest flanks, with older lava flows reaching 15 km and pyroclastic flow deposits as far as 12 km from the peak. Extensive Inca ruins are located at the summit, providing proof of pre-Columbian ascents as well as evidence for a lack of major eruptions over the past 500–1,000 years.