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Altiplano - Bolivia

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  • Mt. Ancohuma (6428m/21,085ft) in the Cordillera Real as seen from the Bolivian Altiplano.
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  • The classic volcano form is Bolivia's highest peak at  6549 m / 21480 ft in the western Andean highlands in Sajama National Park next to Chile while a dead vicuna dessicates in the frigid winds.  The massive snow-capped peak is considered a sacred mountain for the locals and is also climbed by mountaineers from all over the world.
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  • An old colonial-era church located on the high-altitude Altiplano in Sajama National Park in Bolivia is dwarfed by the Chungara Volcano that lies just over the border in neighboring Chile.
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  • The classic volcano form is Bolivia's highest peak at  6549 m / 21480 ft in the western Andean highlands in Sajama National Park next to Chile.  The massive snow-capped peak is considered a sacred mountain for the locals and is also climbed by mountaineers from all over the world.
    090429_Sajama_Nat_Park_104.dng
  • A small flock of pink Andean flamingos take flight above the high-altitude Laguna Colorada in the Sud Lipez region of southwestern Bolivia.  A region that averages 14,000 ft above sea level deep in the Andes mountains.
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  • Laguna Verde sits at 14,500' above sea level, below the 20,000' Llicancabur Volcano deep in the Sud Lipez region of southwestern Bolivia.  The green color of the water comes from the natural leaching of minerals (like arsenic) from the surrounding mineral-laden peaks of the Andes mountains.
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  • Yareta (Azorella compacta), also known as "Llareta" in Spanish or Azorella yareta in the past) is a tiny flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, the north of Chile and the west of Argentina at between 3200 and 4500 metres altitude.  Yareta is an evergreen perennial being in leaf all year. The pink or lavender flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by insects. The plant is self-fertile.  The plant prefers light (sandy) and well-drained soils. It can grow in nutritionally poor environments, no matter if the soil is acidic, neutral or basic (alkaline).  Yareta is well-adapted to high insolation rates which are typical of the highlands, and cannot grow in shade. The plant grows in a very compact way in order to reduce heat losses and very close to ground level where air temperature is one or two degrees Celsius higher than the mean air temperature, this is due to the longwave radiation re-radiated by the soil (which is usually dark gray to black in the Puna).<br />
The plant growth rate has been recently estimated at approximately 1.5 centimeters per year (Kleier and Rundel 2004). Many yaretas are over 3,000 years old.
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  • The pastel colors of eroded minerals create a painter-like landscape deep in the Sud Lipez region of southwestern Bolivia at an altitude of over 15,000' above sea level.
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  • Scattered tufts of Ichu Grass survive the cold, windswept, high-altitude desert of the Sud Lipez region between Laguna Colorada and Verde in southwestern Bolivia in the Department of Potosi.
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  • A small herd of Vicunas (vicugna vicugna) walk to  graze in the high-altitude desert of southwestern Bolivia's Sud Lipez region.  These animals have the highest quality of fur of any animal in the world.  Their fine wool was prized by the Inca rulers that no one but they were allowed to wear it.  Vicunas were a protected animal hundreds of years ago and are beginning to come back from the edge of extinction across  the Andes.
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  • Mt. Sajama catches the last rays of sun at sunset, illuminating the Altiplano's puna grasslands.  Mt. Sajama is an extinct strato-volcano and is Bolivia's highest peak at 21,460' / 6543 m and is located on the western frontier with northern Chile.
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  • Lonely 4wd roads criss-cross the high-altitude deserts of the Sud-Lipez region in Bolivia's southwestern Altiplano at the end of the rainy season.
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  • Lonely 4wd roads criss-cross the high-altitude deserts of the Sud-Lipez region in Bolivia's southwestern Altiplano at the end of the rainy season.
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  • Storm clouds gather on the horizon just before sunset in the Sud Lipez range in southwestern Bolivia's Altiplano region near the town of San Pablo de Lipez.
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  • Storm clouds gather on the horizon just before sunset in the Sud Lipez range in southwestern Bolivia's Altiplano region near the town of San Pablo de Lipez.
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  • Storm clouds gather on the horizon just before sunset in the Sud Lipez range in southwestern Bolivia's Altiplano region near the town of San Pablo de Lipez.
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  • The multi-colored layers of eroded badlands catch the last rays at sunset near Tupiza (Potosi Dept.) , in Bolivias' Sud Lipez region of the southeastern Altiplano.
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  • Deep ruts made by 4x4 vehicles in southwestern Bolivia 's Sud Lipez region show the challenging driving conditions on the Altiplano.
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  • 190216_Sajama_NP_Sunset_019.tif
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  • 200225_Quinoa_Uyuni_Sajama_016.tif
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