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The Andean region, located in central Colombia, is the most populated natural region of Colombia. With many mountains, the Andes contain most of the country's urban centers. [ 1 ] They were also the location of the most significant pre-Columbian indigenous settlements.
The Andes are the location of ... a zone of volcanic activity that encompasses the Pacific rim of the Americas as well as the Asia-Pacific region. The Andes are ...
The region is traversed by a number of rivers heading from the Andean highlands to the sea, including Colombia's principal river, the Magdalena, which disgorges at the main port of Barranquilla. As the area first settled by Europeans, the Caribbean region is also the location of the historic port cities of Santa Marta and Cartagena.
The Venezuelan Andes (Spanish: ... The highest point in Venezuela is located in this natural region. [2] It covers around 5.2% of the national territory, being the ...
The region is composed by the states of Mérida, Táchira, Trujillo and Barinas and is located straddling the Andes Mountain Range. [1] Except for the people of the Llanos in Eastern Barinas, natives from this region are usually referred to as "gochos". [a] It has a total population of 3,607,720 and a density of 39,84 people per square kilometer.
The Andes region — a mountain range running through parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela — has seen a temperature rise of at least 0.10 degrees Celsius ...
Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. After the first humans — who were then arranged into hunter-gatherer tribal groups — arrived in South America via the Isthmus of Panama, they spread out across the continent, with the earliest evidence for settlement in the Andean region dating to circa 15,000 BCE, in what archaeologists call the Lithic Period.
The Puracé National Natural Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Natural Puracé) is a national park located in the Andean region of Colombia, southeast of the city of Popayán in the Cordillera Central range. Its main feature is the active stratovolcano Puracé, one of Colombia's most active volcanoes.