Andes
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For many children living in remote towns across the Peruvian Andes, movies only exist in the form of bootleg DVDs — Hollywood films dubbed in Spanish or in English with Spanish subtitles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Located on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the recently completed NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is designed to explore the sky in extraordinary detail.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
It incorporates multiple long-haul and local flights and covers thousands of miles from the Amazon to the Andes.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The 1858 oil painting presents a panoramic view of the Ecuadorian Andes encompassing the snow-capped volcanic peak at the top, blue glaciated ice below, and towering palm trees lower still.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"Amazonia," by contrast, refers to the bigger region bounded by the Andes to the west, the Guiana Shield to the north, and the Brazilian Shield to the south.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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