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

The coca plant is native to the Andes.

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

The Andes is long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system.

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.

And he got very excited by this idea that you could actually make mountains out of architecture, because Azerbaijan is known as the Alps of Central Asia.

Special communiqué on support for negotiations between the European Union and Central America and the Andean Community

Special communiqué on support for negotiations between the European Union and Central America and the Andean Community

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

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

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

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

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

We took him to see the Mountain. And he got very excited by this idea that you could actually make mountains out of architecture, because Azerbaijan is known as the Alps of Central Asia.

Cattle were introduced to the Central Sahara (Ahaggar) from 4000 to 3500 BC.

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.

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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.

Some likely sailed to Ecuador by rafts from Central America, others came to Ecuador via the Amazon tributaries, others descended from northern South America, and others ascended from the southern part of South America through the Andes or by sailing on rafts.

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.

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The belt of volcanoes along the Andes and the arc of volcanoes through Central America and Mexico are the direct results of this collision.

The project, which will be funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI)), includes a special emphasis on indigenous populations and will focus on Central America, the Andean countries and Mexico.

The Government was pursuing South South integration and developing complementarities with countries of the Caribbean, Central America and the Andean Community.

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.

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 .

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 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.

Hymettus (), also Hymettos ( , transliterated Ymīttós , pronounced ), is a mountain range in the Athens area, East Central Greece.

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.

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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Additionally, geographically focused initiatives have been launched in the Andes, Central America and the Caribbean, Central Asia, East Africa, Europe and the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

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.

Behind those clouds are mountains, the mountains of Armenia.

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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.

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The Alps.

And I'd say that it deserves, in the spirit of Wade Davis' talk, to be at least put up there with these wonderful creation stories of the peoples of the high Andes and the frozen north.

Nearly all of South America east of the Andes also drains to the Atlantic, as does most of Western and Central Europe and the greatest portion of western Sub Saharan Africa.

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