Region
The Andes
/ændiːz/, AN-deez
Also Known As The Andean Region
Americas
The high Andean lands of western South America, the human and ecological zone shaped by the Andes mountain range rather than the range's bare geology, spanning parts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Elevation governs nearly everything about the region: distinct ecological zones stack from tropical lowland forest through temperate highland valleys to permanent snowline within short horizontal distances, and high-altitude agriculture and pastoralism, most famously of the potato and of llamas and alpacas, developed here in forms found nowhere else at comparable scale.
Facts
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Population2012 estimate: about 44 percent of the seven Andean countries' combined population lived within the mountainous Andes region itself, narrower than the seven countries' full national population. Classification
Region TypePhysiographic or Climatic Region 1 Region TypePhysiographic or Climatic Region 1 Area (sq km) FAQs
How many people live in the Andes and what languages do they speak?
About 75 million people in 2012 (44 percent of the seven Andean countries' population); Spanish is common and Quechua has about 10 million speakers.
According to 2012 figures from the Andean Glacier and Water Atlas, about 44 percent of the total population of the seven countries that share the Andes, roughly 75 million people, live within the Andes mountainous region. Spanish is spoken across all of those countries, and many indigenous languages are spoken as well. Variations of Quechua, which has survived since Incan times, are spoken by about 10 million people.
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This source names The Andes directly: "spanning windswept steppe east of the Andes and fjord-cut coastline and glaciers to the west."
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source South America (Wikipedia)
This source names The Andes directly: "The Andes is the mountain range running roughly 7,000 kilometers down the western edge of South America, from Venezuela and Colombia in the north through Peru, Bolivia, and Chile to Patagonia in the..."
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Source Andes (Wikipedia)
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Source CooksInfo: Cranberry BeanEncyclopaedia entry textQuote, Encyclopaedia entry text
Cranberry Beans are believed to have originated in the Andes in what is now Chile.
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Source Guinea pig (Wikipedia)Lead paragraphQuote, Lead paragraph
Originally, guinea pigs were domesticated as livestock for their meat, in the Andean region of South America, and they are still consumed there.
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Source Locro (Wikipedia)tier 3
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Source The Global Expansion of Quinoa: Trends and Limits (Frontiers in Plant Science)tier 1
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Source Purdue University NewCROP: Tree Tomato (Fruits of Warm Climates, Julia F. Morton)Origin and DistributionQuote, Origin and Distribution
Origin and Distribution Although its place of origin is not certain, the tree tomato is generally believed to be native to the Andes of Peru and probably also Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia where it is extensively grown, as it is also in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia.
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Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidsontier 1
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Source Llama (Wikipedia)
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Source Wikipedia: Quechuan LanguagesLead sentence 1tier 2Quote, Lead sentence 1
Quechua (; Spanish: [ˈketʃwa]), also called Runa simi in Southern Quechua (pronounced [ˈɾʊna ˈsɪmɪ], 'people's language'), is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
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Sources
1. The Andes (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIntroductionQuote, Introduction
The Andes ( AN-deez), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes; Quechua: Anti) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
2. Wikidata
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata Q5456, statement P2046 (area)Quote, Wikidata Q5456, statement P2046 (area)
3,300,000 square kilometre
3. Population in the Andean Region (GRID-Arendal)
GRID-ArendalPopulation in the Andean RegionQuote, Population in the Andean Region
about 44 per cent (75 million people in 2012) of the total population of the seven countries live within the Andes mountainous region
National Geographic Atlas of the World
National Geographic Society, 2019
Andes (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, IPA pronunciation
Andes /ændiːz/ AN-deez
Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Article text
The Andes are the result of tectonic plate processes extending during the Mesozoic and Tertiary eras, caused by the subduction of oceanic crust beneath the South American Plate as the Nazca Plate and South American Plate converge.
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Wikidata Q5456, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source South America (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: South America, Article textQuote, Associated With: South America, Article text
The geography of western South America is dominated by the Andes mountains; in contrast, the eastern part contains both highland regions and vast lowlands where rivers such as the Amazon, Orinoco and Paraná flow.
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