The nearby town of Cajamarca has grown from 30, when the mine started to , people in The deep valley and rivers of the Andes give it huge potential as a region to produce hydroelectric power. The narrow valleys are ideal to dam as it cuts costs, and the steep relief increases water velocities allowing electricity generation.
Snow melt fuels most of the water provision, but this means that HEP production can be reduced to small amounts in winter. The Yuncan dam project dams the Puacartambo and Huachon rivers in northeast Peru, while the el Platinal project will begin construction in Tourism is a massive industry for Peru and the country has a lot to offer.
Peru has some fantastic coastline as well, but the highlight of Peru is undoubtedly the Inca Trail. You can take a virtual field trip of the Inca Trail here.
The trail basically covers 43km of old pathways linking together old Inca settlements in the inhospitable mountains of the Andes. The trail is covered in 4 days and covers around 43km, and finishes with sunrise at the "Lost City of the Incas" at Machu Picchu. The trail is strictly controlled, and only trekkers are allowed to start out on the trail every day. How the Andes Mountains are used.
Farming The mountain slopes of the Andes are used for a variety of farming practises. It was during the Cretaceous period that the Andes began to take their present form, by the uplifting, faulting and folding of sedimentary and metamorphic rock of the ancient cratons to the east.
The rise of the Andes has not been constant and different regions have had different degrees of tectonic stress, uplift, and weathering. About 30, species of Vascular plants live in the Andes, vascular plants include the club mosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms including conifers and angiosperms flowering plants.
The small tree Cinchona pubescens, a source of quinine which is used to treat malaria, is found widely in the Andes as far south as Bolivia. Other important crops that came from the Andes are tobacco and potatoes. These trees are called Quenua by locals, Yagual and other names, can be found at altitudes of 4, m 14, ft above sea level. Tomatoes and potatoes, two of the most prevalent food crops in the world, originated from the Andes.
Peru, one of Andes host countries, is home to at least 3, different varieties of potatoes. Coca tea is a popular beverage in the high Andes, thanks to its effectiveness in relieving symptoms of altitude sickness. In the Andes about 3, species of animals can be found, including species of mammals, 1, species of birds, species of reptiles, and species of fishes, and more than species of amphibians. High mountains are a dreary habitat for wild life, so mammals living there have thick woolly fur.
The Andes are one of the greatest sources of mineral wealth in the world. Andean mines account for more than 45 percent of the world's copper production, nearly 30 percent of the silver production, significant amounts of lead, zinc, gold and an array of industrial minerals and chemicals. And what the scientists found surprised them. The 4,mile-long 7, kilometers Andes — the longest continuous mountain range in the world — didn't form in the way that scientists had long thought.
Previously, geologists held that the Nazca oceanic plate, which lies under the eastern Pacific Ocean, had steadily and continuously subducted slipped under South America, which made the ground rise and eventually create the towering Andes.
But after studying the underground remnants of the Nazca oceanic plate, which sit about miles 1, km underground, the researchers learned that the plate did not go through a steady and continuous subduction. Rather, the Nazca plate was at times torn away from the Andean margin the place where it was subducting , which led to volcanic activity, the researchers said.
The remains of the subducted Nazca plate are far underground, so how did the scientists study them? The basaltic composition of the lower crust converts to a very high-density rock called eclogite , which serves as an anchor to the low-density upper crust. As this root is forced deeper into the hotter part of the mantle, it heats to a temperature where it can be rapidly removed over several million years , resulting in the rapid rise of the mountain range.
Please consider downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer to experience this site as intended. Sedimentary deposits near Cerdas in the Altiplano plateau of Bolivia. These rocks contain ancient soils used to decipher the surface temperature and surface uplift history of the southern Altiplano.
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