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41MPix XXXXL size - this panoramic landscape is an very high resolution multi-frame composite and is suitable for large scale printing. The Altiplano (Spanish for high plain), in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. Lake Titicaca is its best known geographical feature. The Altiplano is an area of inland drainage (endorheism) lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Northern Chile and Argentina, Western Bolivia and Southern Peru. Its height averages about 3,750 meters (12,300 feet), slightly less than that of Tibet. Unlike the Tibetan Plateau, however, the Altiplano is dominated by massive active volcanoes of the Central Volcanic Zone to the west like Ampato (6288 m), Tutupaca (5816 m), Nevado Sajama (6542 m), Parinacota (6348 m), Guallatiri (6071 m), Cerro Paroma (5728 m), Cerro Uturuncu (6008 m) and Licancabur (5916 m), and the Cordillera Real in the north east with Illampu (6368 m), Huayna Potosi (6088 m), Ancohuma (6427 m) and Illimani (6438 m). The Atacama Desert, one of the driest areas on the whole planet, lies to the southwest of the Altiplano. In contrast, to the east lies the humid Amazon Rainforest.

A small shallow lake on a high mountain pass in the center of the Andes.

View Of The Mountains In The Urubamba Province, Peru

Altiplano view in Los Andes region, with mountains in the background

Dramatic beautiful scenic landscape with the Andes Mountains towering the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru.

Clouds gather above a mountain range behind lush, green fields.

Ausangate Trail, lakes and mountains, Cusco, Peru

Dirt Road in Sacred valley, Cusco district, Peru

Landscape with mountains in Peru

$View of Peruvian altiplano, Andes on the background, South America.\nThe Altiplano (Spanish for high plain), in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. Lake Titicaca is its best known geographical feature. The Altiplano is an area of inland drainage (endorheism) lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Northern Chile and Argentina, Western Bolivia and Southern Peru$

Mountainous Landscape View Near Cusco In Peru

Views of the sacred valley in Peru from the highest point of the mountain range in Abra Malaga.

Ollantaytambo, Peru: A traditional adobe farm in the Sacred Valley near Ollantaytambo.

Amazing Landscape in a Sunny Day of Sacred Valley of the Inca, Cusco Region, Peru, South America

The aerial view of the mountains with a small town. Ayacucho, Peru.

Train approaching through valley to Machu Picchu station

The altiplano of Peru

Natural landscape of the Andes mountain range

Ollantaytambo, Peru.

Dramatic Andean vista featuring snow-capped Chicon peak, rugged mountains, and expansive highlands near Maras, Peru.

view from the mirador La Cumbre near La Paz in Bolivia

Amazing scenery and typical terraces and architecture in Pisac, Peru

The Altiplano (Spanish for high plain), in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. Lake Titicaca is its best known geographical feature. The Altiplano is an area of inland drainage (endorheism) lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Northern Chile and Argentina, Western Bolivia and Southern Peru. Its height averages about 3,750 meters (12,300 feet), slightly less than that of Tibet. Unlike the Tibetan Plateau, however, the Altiplano is dominated by massive active volcanoes of the Central Volcanic Zone to the west like Ampato (6288 m), Tutupaca (5816 m), Nevado Sajama (6542 m), Parinacota (6348 m), Guallatiri (6071 m), Cerro Paroma (5728 m), Cerro Uturuncu (6008 m) and Licancabur (5916 m), and the Cordillera Real in the north east with Illampu (6368 m), Huayna Potosi (6088 m), Ancohuma (6427 m) and Illimani (6438 m). The Atacama Desert, one of the driest areas on the whole planet, lies to the southwest of the Altiplano. In contrast, to the east lies the humid Amazon Rainforest.

Mountain peaks at the Andes mountains in Peru, seen near the city of Cusco from an airplane.

The road between Huaytará in the province of Huancavelica and Huamanga, the capital of the province of Ayacucho passes trough a barren plateau at nearly 5000 m above sea level. Only very primitive plants grow here and ice and snow is found on the slopes.

Peruvian Andean landscape, Qiwllarahu mountain in the Cordillera Blanca, highway to Huaraz.

A little village named Collana located in Matucana-Perú

$The Sacred Valley (Urubamba region), \$

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