The Andean Plateau in South America rises, on average, more than 4,000 meters above sea level, formed by orogenic uplift that began more than 20 million years ago. Orogeny occurs at convergent ...

Unearthly landscapes litter Bolivia's Andean plateau several thousand feet above most of the rest of the world. With rose-hued lakes, jagged mountain ranges, and sky-mirroring salt flats ...

along the Andean Plateau. "We got permission from the embassy. We got permission from the town. We got permission from the university. But what we needed was the approval of the gods," said Emily ...

Most of the world's quinoa is grown on the altiplano, a vast, cold, windswept, and barren 14,000-foot Andean plateau spanning parts of Peru and Bolivia. Quinoa is one of the few things that grow ...