"The city of Tiwanaku was the capital of a prehispanic empire that dominated a large area of the southern Andes" (brief description)

(1690mtrs) (foothills)

3400m - "located in a fertile alluvial valley fed by several rivers in the heart of the Central Peruvian Andes of South America" (OUV)

2400m - "The Eastern slopes of the tropical Andes with its enormous gradient from high altitude “Puna” grasslands and Polylepis thickets to montane cloud forests" (OUV)

(2380mtrs) - "The city of Arequipa, which is located in a valley between the slopes of the Andes and the desert of Ilay-La-Joya" (AB ev)

(3185mtrs) - "The archaeological site of Chavin gave its name to the culture that developed between the 15th and the 5th century BC in this high valley of the Peruvian Andes" (official description)

"Isolated in the Andes at 2,818 m. altitude" (OUV statement)

"Located in the middle of the Ecuadorian Andes" ... "With an altitudinal range extending from 900 to 5,319 metres above sea level" (OUV statement)

(2500 mtrs)

The Cerro Mucho Malo is part of the coastal foothills of the western chain of the Andes mountain range. (Nomination Text, p. 15)

(2295 mtrs)

(2750 mtrs)

(1695 mtrs)

(500- 4200mtrs)

(2500-3500mtrs)

"an omnipresent symbol of the Empire’s strength and extension throughout the Andes" (OUV)

"perched at an altitude of 4,000 m in the icy solitude of the Bolivian Andes" (OUV)

The Park lies in the southeastern Peruvian Andes (UNEP-WCMC)

6,768 at its peak - "Huascaran National Park protects the heart of the World's highest tropical mountain range in the central Peruvian Andes" (OUV)

"on the foothills of the western and central ranges of the Cordillera de los Andes in the west of the country" (brief description)

(2000mtrs)

(up to 3375 mtrs)

"Los Alerces National Park, is located on the Argentine side of the Andes of Northern Patagonia in north-western Chubut Province" (AB ev)