The coca plant is native to the Andes.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Andean Community (, CAN) is a customs union comprising the South American countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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.

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

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

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

By contrast, for Chávez and, to a lesser degree, other Andean leaders (Peru being a notable exception), the behemoth to the north is a dangerous imperialist enemy.

During its negotiations with Brazil, Peru stated that based on the royal cedula of 1802, it claimed Amazonian Basin territories up to Caqueta River in the north and toward the Andes Mountain range, depriving Ecuador and Colombia of all their claims to the Amazon Basin.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

59 54. Andean Zone of Peace

Secondly, Peru was an advocate of the creation of the South American Zone of Peace and Cooperation and the Andean Zone of Peace, which have been recognized in Assembly resolutions 57 13 and 59 54, respectively.

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 .

Ms. Holguín (Colombia) said she endorsed the statements made by the representative of Brazil on behalf of the Rio Group and by the representative of Peru on behalf of the Andean Community.

Andean Zone of Peace item 161 .

Elevation With an elevation of 6,268 m, Chimborazo is the highest mountain in Ecuador and the Andes north of Peru it is higher than any more northerly summit in the Americas.

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

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.

Snow in the Alps.

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.

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.

The first funicular section continued in operation, as it does to this day.

Mr. Chiriboga (Ecuador) said that his delegation wished to associate itself with the statements made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and the representative of Peru on behalf of the Andean Community.

Behind those clouds are mountains, the mountains of Armenia.

The highest mountain in Colombia is not in the Andes but in the Caribbean plain Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with its highest points named Pico Cristobal Colon (5775 m) and Pico Simon Bolivar (same elevation).

Andean countries have integrated the Hyogo Framework in the implementation of the Andean strategy approved by Heads of States in July 2004.