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Mountain building in the central Andes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1989The Central Andes is the middle part of the Andean chain between about 13°S and 27°S, characterized by the parallel running high mountain chains (the Western and Eastern Cordilleras) at the edges of high plateaus with a height of about 4000 m and a width of 200 to 450 km (the Altiplano‐Puna).
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Six Farms in the Central Andes
Geographical Review, 1932possessing within the tropics both highlands and lowlands favorable for civilized development. In southern Peru not only does human settlement attain its greatest altitudinal range, but there exist in close contiguity populous communities of real significance in the life of the country both at low and at high altitudes.
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The Iberian Pig in the Central Andes
Journal of Cultural Geography, 1987The Iberian pig is an ancient breed of domesticated swine with long legs and a narrow snout. Small and agile, it thrives despite minimal human support, feeding mainly on acorns. Its transfer to the New World after the great discoveries was highly successful even where acorns did not exist.
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The Central Andes: Peru and Bolivia
1985The Andean mountain chain in Peru is divided into two physiographic belts, the Eastern and the Western Cordillera, which correspond to orogenic belts of different ages; Paleozoic to the east and Mesozoic—Tertiary to the west (Fig. 1). Between the two Cordilleras there is a somewhat poorly defined region that, though intermittent, is nevertheless real ...
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Cenozoic Formation of the Central Andes
1999Abstract Geophysical data relating the dynamic processes of plate motion and subduction to Andean orogenesis are interpreted in terms of a new model for magmatic and tectonic development of the central Andes. The model is based on changing subduction geometry—from normal to flat to normal—and the attendant magmatic and tectonic ...
David E. James, I. Selwyn Sacks
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Abstract Rather than following a linear trajectory of development, warfare in the central Andes rose and fell in intensity and assumed different forms depending on its social and political context. While small-scale, periodic conflicts were likely present from Archaic times onward, it is in the centuries just after the fall of Chavín ...
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BRIDGE TYPES IN THE CENTRAL ANDES∗
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1972ABSTRACT Four major bridge types have dominated the central Andean Highlands in the past 400 years: the indigenous hanging bridge of plant materials; the Mediterranean stone arch bridge; the iron-cabled suspension structure with flat roadway; and the steel beam bridge. All three introductions, although technologically superior to the native vine bridge,
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Frutas silvestres con potencial vitamínico de los Andes Centrales de América
, 2013Segundo. Leiva González +4 more
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Linguistic complexity in the Central Andes
Abstract Linguistic complexity has been found to correlate with sociolinguistic factors such as isolation, and with geographical factors such as altitude, though such correlations are not without problems. Here it is asked whether these or other factors hold for South America and in particular the Central Andes, and what light the ...openaire +1 more source