The coca plant is native to the Andes.

I've been back several times for filming, most recently for Untamed Americas it's the Altiplano in the high Andes of South America, and it's the most otherworldly place I know.

These terrestrial plants are native to the Andes Mountains of South America and southern Central America.

It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America.

It can be found at the high valleys of the Andean territory, in Peru and Bolivia.

The Andes is long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system.

Colombia occupies most of the Andes mountain range northern extremity sharing a bit with Venezuela which splits into three branches between the Colombia Ecuador border.

And I'd say that it deserves, in the spirit of Wade Davis' talk, to be at least put up there with these wonderful creation stories of the peoples of the high Andes and the frozen north.

The top priority for USSOUTHCOM is to fight narcotics trafficking from the Andes to the Rio Grande.

But in 1822, as he crossed the Andes, Simón Bolívar confronted the Pastusos rebellion, who were accosting his army through guerrilla warfare.

In the mountain region, rain is frequent during summer, and temperature and humidity diminish with altitude up to the frozen peaks of the Andes.

A similar regional process to develop Facility proposals is envisaged for the Andes, based on this collaborative effort.

I will feed them with good pasture and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be there shall they lie down in a good fold and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

The community grew to urban proportions between AD 600 and AD 800, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes.

Andean Community

The pipeline brought oil from the east side of the Andes to the coast, making Ecuador South America's second largest oil exporter.

Some 1,500 miles south of the tropics, between Chile and Bolivia, the Andes completely change.

In those early years many aviation milestones were achieved conquering the height of the Andes was one of the main targets as well as long distance flights.

Andean Community

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Cocaine used to be America s problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.

HUMANO is a documentary film that tells the story of the journey of a young man into the mountains of the Andes, accompanied only by a camera, two hundred questions and the longing to discover the origins .

East of the Andes lies the savanna of the Llanos , part of the Orinoco River basin, and, in the far south east, the jungle of the Amazon rainforest.

Historical, geographical, and pictorial records point toward a consistent and progressive depletion of ice and snow masses in the Colombian Andes since the end of the Little Ice Age in the late 1800s.

In poor rural areas of the Andean and Amazon regions, the Government had launched a campaign to provide women and children with identification documents as a first step to the full exercise of their rights.

A small band of Spaniards headed by Francisco Pizarro landed in Tumbez and marched over the Andes Mountains until they reached Cajamarca, where the new Inca Atahualpa was to hold an interview with them.

In the Highland Andes where a predominantely Mestizo, white and Amerindian population exist, the African presence is almost non existent except for a small community in the province of Imbabura called Chota Valley.

Mountains.

The subduction zone runs along the edge of one of the continents and dips under it, raising volcanic mountain chains at some distance behind it, such as the Andes of South America today.

Behind those clouds are mountains, the mountains of Armenia.

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Moreover, the cultivation, processing, and trafficking of cocaine and heroin continues throughout the Andean Ridge, despite tough eradication measures and extradition of traffickers by the US.

Mountains and Minarets

The Alps.

Nearly all of South America east of the Andes also drains to the Atlantic, as does most of Western and Central Europe and the greatest portion of western Sub Saharan Africa.

The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region.

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Nearby mountain ranges include the Gallatin Range to the northwest, the Beartooth Mountains in the north, the Absaroka Range to the east, and the Teton Range and the Madison Range to the southwest and west.

The cold or cool zone constitutes about 6 of the total area, including some of the most densely populated plateaus and terraces of the Colombian Andes this zone supports about onefourth of the country's total population.

Alpine Convention

Carpathian Convention

Mountain Province

Keats. Shelley.

Alpine style.