Uses of The Andes
- Created by: moe choudhry
- Created on: 28-04-14 20:35
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- Uses of The Andes
- Tourism
- Machu Picchu (Ancient Inca City)
- Walk Inca Trail to get to Machu Picchu (4 day journey)
- 5000 visitors a day in peak season
- High Altitude, so its hard for tourists to breath
- Machu Picchu (Ancient Inca City)
- Mountain Climbers
- Siula Grande (6000m)
- -Almost vertical climb
- Low Oxygen levels and Extreme Weather
- They have Oxygen Tanks
- And Equipment and Protectiion
- They have Oxygen Tanks
- Low Oxygen levels and Extreme Weather
- -Almost vertical climb
- Siula Grande (6000m)
- Water from Glaciers is used for drinking in Lima (Capital City of Peru)
- Aymara Indians are subsistence farmers in Altiplano
- 4000m altitude, high of 12 Degrees Celcius,
- Lack of rainfall and poor soil
- rural-urban migration
- Make Quinoa crop because they have good nutrition and fuel
- Lack of rainfall and poor soil
- 4000m altitude, high of 12 Degrees Celcius,
- Scientific Research
- Cordillera Blanca
- Melting Glaciers
- Climate Change
- Quelccaya Ice Cap (Quelccaya Ice Cap
- Climate Change
- Preserved Mummies
- Anthropology
- Melting Glaciers
- Cordillera Blanca
- Tourism
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