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La Paz, Bolivia, is the second-largest city located in the Altiplano (after El Alto) Volcanoes in Sajama National Park (Parinacota and Pomerape). The Altiplano is an area of inland drainage lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of northern Chile, western Bolivia, southern Peru and northwest Argentina.
The Mexican Altiplano is one of six distinct physiographic sections of the Basin and Range Province, which in turn is part of the Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. In phytogeography , the Sonoran Desert is within the Sonoran Floristic Province of the Madrean Region in southwestern North America , part of the Holarctic realm of the ...
The Llano de Chajnantor is located on the western side of the Puna de Atacama, which is another name for the southern part of the Altiplano.The main ridge of the Andes is over 200 kilometres (120 mi) to the east, well into Argentina.
The Altiplano Basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Altiplano) is a sedimentary basin within the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. The basin is located on the Altiplano plateau between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental. Over-all the basin has evolved through time in a context of horizontal shortening of Earth's crust. [1]
The Altiplano is an infill of sedimentary material from both Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Oriental. The origin of the Altiplano and its great height has long been major question among geologists. Today the Altiplano is believed to have been an early foreland basin of the "proto-Andes" that got uplifted by crustal shortening in the Late ...
The Altiplano-Puna Magma Body (APMB), a magma body located within the Altiplano-Puna plateau approximately 10–20 km beneath the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex (APVC) [1] in the Central Andes. High resolution tomography shows that this magma body has a diameter of ~200 km, a depth of 14–20 km, with a total volume of ~500,000 km 3 , [ 2 ...
It extends from central Peru in the north, across the Altiplano plateau of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, and south along the spine of the Andes into northwest Argentina. Other sources claim that it goes on Suni (high plateaus and cliffs, some agriculture) and from 4000 m to the snow line ( permafrost and alpine desert) of puna grassland (mountain ...
Pages in category "Populated places in the Altiplano" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.