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OVERPRODUCTION THREATENS ANDES SUPERFOOD HAVEN
Between 2012 and 2017, exports of Peruvian quinoa, the golden grain of the Incas, have quadrupled in value from 34.5 million to more than 124 million, data from Promperu showed... READ MORE›
B.C. MAN GETS 'ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME' JOB MANAGING WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPE IN CHILE
ALMA is a state-of-the-art telescope located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile... READ MORE›
THE CORRUPTION SCANDAL STARTED IN BRAZIL. NOW IT'S WREAKING HAVOC IN PERU.
Once seen as a Pacific Puma whose fast economic growth was easing deeply entrenched poverty, Peru has seen a slowdown as the Odebrecht scandal has grown... READ MORE›
A RESTAURANT WHERE LAKE ALGAE AND CRISPY PIRANHA SKIN RULE
Dish Lofty Andes Altitude 3,900 meters 12,795 feet In this dish, the diner excavates charred mountain potatoes from a dish of ashen rocks that evoke a barren landscape... READ MORE›
DEATHS AS POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE STRIKES SOUTHERN PERU
A powerful earthquake in southern Peru has killed at least two people and injured dozens, while causing houses and roads to collapse... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 36 DEAD WHEN BUS PLUNGES OFF 'DEVIL'S CURVE' ONTO ROCKY BEACH IN PERU
It's very sad for us as a country to suffer an accident of this magnitude, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said in a statement... READ MORE›
DOZENS DIE AS BUS PLUNGES 100 METRES OFF CLIFF
More than three dozen died when three buses and a truck collided in 2015 on the main costal highway... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Andes
WHY LIMA IS THE WORLD'S BEST FOOD CITY
If you average the rankings of the three restaurants in each city, Lima has the best, lowest score-- 15.6 --followed by New York 23.6, Mexico City 26.6, and London 28.3 ... READ MORE›
CANADIAN OIL FIRM PULLS OUT OF NATIONAL PARK IN AMAZON
A Canadian-headquartered company, Pacific Exploration and Production, has pulled out of a huge oil and gas concession overlapping a new national park in the Peruvian Amazon... READ MORE›
POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE SHAKES CHILE ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Eight mostly small ports in the area were closed, Chile's Navy said... READ MORE›
LARGE ICEBERG BREAKS OFF FROM GREY GLACIER IN SOUTHERN CHILE
Grey glacier is located in the Southern Patagonian ice field, just west of the Cordillera del Paine... READ MORE›
HISTORIC CHURCH DESTROYED BY FIRE IN PERU
Photos Fire destroys church in Peru Officials assess the damage to the San Sebastian Church in Cusco, Peru, after a devastating fire Friday, September 16... READ MORE›
EXTRAORDINARY MIGRATION OF GIANT AMAZON CATFISH REVEALED
The dorado catfish travels 11,600km from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon and back, but is threatened by dams and mining... READ MORE›
CHILES LARGEST CITY TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN DUE TO SMOG 'EMERGENCY'
Measures relaxed on Monday night after cars were ordered off streets of Santiago, businesses shut and 7 million residents told to stay indoors... READ MORE›
QUINOA GENOME UNVEILED IN SEARCH FOR HARDY CROP TO FEED WORLD
First grown by humans thousands of years ago in the high plateau around Lake Titicaca in the Andes, quinoa is still barely domesticated, the researchers said... READ MORE›
GENEVA TALKS: COUNTRIES AGREE DRAFT TEXT FOR DEAL TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
Everything in Geneva has set us up for success at Paris, said Julie-Anne Richards of the Climate Justice Programme... READ MORE›
CHILEAN SUPREME COURT ORDERS HALT TO MINE
The court upheld an appeal filed on the El Morro mine by the Diaguita community in northern Chile... READ MORE›
PLANE MISSING FOR HALF CENTURY FOUND IN ANDES
Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz told Chile's Channel 7 they're keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting... READ MORE›
A FORMER GIRL SOLDIER IN COLOMBIA FINDS LIFE IS HARD AS A CIVILIAN
For the next seven years she was held hostage by the rebels, forced to become a child soldier... READ MORE›
COTOPAXI SHOOTS ASH TWO MILES INTO THE AIR, COATING ROADS, HOMES AND CARS WITH POWDER
Ecuador volcano activity Cotopaxi shoots ash two miles into the air, coating roads, homes and cars with powder... READ MORE›
SNOW-GO: WHY BEN NEVIS IS FROST-FREE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 11 YEARS
But it's not all doom and gloom - Ben Nevis expert Iain Cameron is confident the snow will return... READ MORE›
TRAVEL PHOTO OF THE WEEK: SLEEP AMID THE ANDES, SACRED VALLEY, PERU
Which is why tour company Natura Vive put three transparent pods 400ft up in the Peruvian Andes... READ MORE›
CRASH MARS ANDES AIR DISASTER MEMORIAL
In the 1972 disaster, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes... READ MORE›
MAJOR QUAKE JOLTS CHILE RESORT REGION; 21,000 HOMES LOSE POWER
Latam Airlines and Sky Airlines said their southern Chile routes were operating without major delays... READ MORE›
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Patagonia is the farthest place to which man walked from his place of origin, Bruce Chatwin wrote in his book, In Patagonia, published in 1977... READ MORE›
'I ATE MY FRIENDS TO SURVIVE'
In 1972, Roberto Canessa was one of 45 people aboard a plane that crashed high in the Andes mountains... READ MORE›
ECUADOR PRESIDENT: EXPECT 'CONSIDERABLE' RISE IN QUAKE DEATH TOLL
A bridge in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, collapsed after the quake... READ MORE›
THIS COULD BE THE WRECKAGE OF A PLANE THAT WENT MISSING IN CHILE 54 YEARS AGO
Speaking to Chile's Channel 7, expedition member Leonardo Albornoz said the group discovered the wreckage at an altitude of about 10,500 ft around 215 miles of the capital, Santiago... READ MORE›
PERU FLOODS CAUSED BY EL NINO RAIN KILL AT LEAST 67
A woman is pulled high over flood waters in a zip-line harness in Lima, Peru, Friday... READ MORE›
5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERU'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Keiko is facing off against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a 77-year-old Wall Street investor and technocrat... READ MORE›
REPORTS: RESULTS TIGHT IN PERU RUNOFF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Post to Facebook Reports Results tight in Peru runoff presidential election Election is referendum on imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori... READ MORE›
BOLIVIA WEATHER TAKES CENTRE STAGE IN DAKAR RALLY
An improvement in general weather conditions will occur on Tuesday, when a much lower risk of showers is expected... READ MORE›
CHILEAN SOCCER TEAM'S PLANE FOUND FIVE DECADES AFTER MOUNTAINSIDE CRASH
That followed in 1972, when a Uruguayan aircraft carrying a rugby team went down in the Andes in Argentina, near the border with Chile... READ MORE›
PERUVIANS VOTE AS SHADOW OF EX-LEADER HANGS OVER TIGHT PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Regardless of who wins, Keiko Fujimori already has reshaped Peru's political landscape... READ MORE›
AS GLACIERS MELT, PROJECT SEEKS TO PRESERVE ICE CORES SHOWING CLIMATE HISTORY
An international team will set out in May on a grueling trip up Bolivia's 6,400-meter Mount Illimani to drill three ice cores from its crowning glacier... READ MORE›
SWISS PILOT ON SOLO ODYSSEY DIES IN ECUADOR CRASH
Eric Guilloud, 62, was declared dead following the accident in Cotopaxi province, Ecuador's Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA said... READ MORE›
CHILEAN SOCCER TEAM'S PLANE FOUND FIVE DECADES AFTER MOUNTAINSIDE CRASH
Chilean soccer teams plane found five decades after mountainside crash... READ MORE›