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Large urban areas or small rural towns, & on every continent: beauty is everywhere. Los Andes, BTW, is between Santiago and the border with Argentina.
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Cuando vas por la cumbre de los Andes, nunca sabes si estás en Chile o en Argentina, constantemente pasas de un País a otro, este pequeño lago, me pareció delicioso y las nubes muy favorables, espero que os guste.
Santiago de Chile and the Andes. I did not spend enough time in that city!
Credits: ESA/NASA
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(EN) It is not an oil painting, is a panoramic photo in the Los Andes range, on the way to Laguna Brava. La Rioja, Argentina. Is a Beautiful landscape, isn't it?
(ES) No es una pintura al oleo, es una foto panorámica en la cordillera de Los Andes, rumbo a Laguna Brava. La Rioja, Argentina. Hermoso paisaje, no?
Enafer Peru (Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Perú) 914mm gauge diesel 485, Alco, MLW (Montreal Locomotive Works-Worthington), DL535B built 1963, waiting in Cusco at the head of our train to Machu Picchu.
The engine shed is off to the right and the curve of the turntable is in view.
Flying over the Andes.
The Andes form the world's longest exposed mountain range.[1] They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. It is over 7,000 km (4,400 miles) long, 500 km (300 miles) wide in some parts (widest between 18° to 20°S latitude), and of an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft).
The Andean range is composed principally of two great ranges, the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental, often separated by a deep intermediate depression, in which arise other chains of minor importance, the chief of which is Chile's Cordillera de la Costa. Other small chains arise on the sides of the great chains. The Cordillera de la Costa starts from the southern extremity of the continent and runs in a northerly direction, parallel with the coast, being broken up at its beginning into a number of islands and afterwards forming the western boundary of the great central valley of Chile. To the north this coastal chain continues in small ridges or isolated hills along the Pacific Ocean as far as Venezuela, always leaving the same valley more or less visible to the west of the Western Great Chain. The mountains extend over seven countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, some of which are known as Andean States.
The Andes mountain range is the highest mountain range outside Asia. The highest peak, Aconcagua, rises to 6,962 m (22,841 ft) above sea level. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the equatorial bulge. The Andes cannot match the Himalayas in height but do so in width and are more than twice as long.
The last solar rays touch the top of the Andes range covered with fog.
Los últimos rayos solares tocan la cima de la cordillera de los Andes cubierta de niebla
Dura piel cordillerana,
Andes impetuosos,
tus ojos nieve rebelde
se alzan fraccionando
territorios hijos de tus faldeos.
Andes vehementes
que civilizaciones milenarias cruzaron
y tus duros vientos
rasgaron la piel del inca valeroso .
Fuiste testigo
del paso de aquel triunfal
Ejercito Libertador
y el sudor de San Martin y O´Higgins
se respira por entre esas rocas
deponentes de voces independentistas
El Gaucho y el Huaso
hermanan sus lazos de patria
por tus venas rocosas
duras e impenetrables
que la civilización intenta dominar.
Dominio infructuoso
porque invierno tras invierno
grita fastuosa
la soberanía de la naturaleza
ante el hombre.
Y entre esa historia,
de poder de montaña,
de magnas leyendas,
de soldados que saltan precipicios,
suave por las vías férreas trasandinas,
la pequeña Góndola Carril
silenciosa y fugaz brota
uniendo Los Ándes con Río Blanco.
Foto y Texto © Alfredo Navarro Recabal