they found the locals in the Andes happy to hand over their gold. Rather than set a store by rare metals, the Incans preferred to measure someone's worth by the quality and number of alpacas they ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative ... a group of animals that includes alpaca and llama, which are domesticated species.

The Herder's Laboratory: Indigenous Climate Science in the Peruvian Andes by Dr. Allison Caine The mountain ranges of Peru are considered ... in the receding glaciers of the Andes. The Quechua alpaca ...