Andes: looking south from saddle to Nevado Pisco

Andes Trekking day 2

難得經過的印地安人家.

View of the Peruvian Andes above the clouds on the Inca Trail.

Best Viewed Large and On Black

Múltiples estudios han indicado un calentamiento importante y el consiguiente deshielo de glaciares en los últimos decenios. También existen cada vez más pruebas de la amplificación por altitud (es decir, a más elevación, más velocidad de calentamiento), por lo que las regiones montañosas altas experimentan cambios de temperatura más rápidos de lo normal (Pepin et al., 2015; Urrutia and Vuille, 2009). La temperatura media anual de los países de los Andes septentrionales (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador y el Perú) creció en 0,8 ºC aproximadamente durante el siglo XX (Marengo et al., 2011).

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Andes Mountains from 35.000 Ft

Accidente de camión en la cordillera

Mendoza – Argentina - 2006

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My flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago de Chile in October 2005 over the snowcapped Andes mountains.

Andes Mountains from 35.000 Ft

En las altitudes elevadas de los Andes tropicales las temperaturas de superficie han subido un 0,1 ºC aproximadamente cada decenio durante los últimos 50 años (Vuille et al., 2015). Debido a este calentamiento, la altitud del nivel de congelación (isoterma de 0 ºC) ha aumentado unos 45 m de media en toda la región (Bradley et al., 2009).

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Andes Trekking day 3

Belo Horizonte e a Serra do Curral é tipo Santiago do Chile com os Andes.

Só que com mais amor.

Best if seen large

My favorite kind of chocolate! The brand name blends well with the background image and the rest of the text follows along the same slope. This unifies the entire design and even the chocolates are following the same angle.

Vista de la Cordillera de Los Andes desde el centro de ski Valle Nevado.

Esquel - Chubut

We woke up to perfectly clear skies and a great view of the mountains surrounding our lodge.

At the time the Shining Path movement was very active and claiming many civilian lives.I risked it to travel with US tour group overland from Cusco to the Amazonian lowlands. If encountered thought I'd whip out my New Zealand passport to show not implicated but probably that would have prompted a shot. Hopefully both she and her affectionate pets have been spared that strife.

Arequipa

Story tale vegetation at around 4000m altitude in Ecuadorian Andes.

The last view of the Santa Teresa River Valley before we cross over to other side of Llactapata.

Surface temperatures in the high-altitude areas of the Tropical Andes have increased of ~0.1°C per decade over the last 50 years (Vuille et al., 2015). This warming has resulted in the altitude of the freezing level height (zero-degree isotherm) rising by an average of ~45 m across the region (Bradley et al., 2009).

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De acuerdo con el escenario de emisiones altas del IPCC (Jiang et al. 2000), de aquí a 2100 está previsto que las precipitaciones aumenten en las regiones costeras de Colombia y Ecuador y en algunos lugares de los Andes orientales, al sur del ecuador. Sin embargo, para 2100 se espera que las precipitaciones disminuyan en los Andes meridionales (tropicales), con inclusión de las regiones del Altiplano, lo que haría aumentar la sequía.

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Vista aérea da Cordilheira dos Andes

Waterfowl take flight on Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. Photo Credit: Liz Julian/USFWS

Andes Manta is a band of brothers from Ecuador. They have been playing tradition music from the Andes since they were children.