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🔆Andes Mountains

✅ Source edubaba

✅Type -Volcanic Arc

✅The Andes were formed as a result of convergent tectonic plate boundary processes, caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate (oceanic crust) beneath the South American Plate.

✅They are also part of the American Cordillera

✅Length - 7,000 Km.

✅Location-Continuous highland along the western edge of South America
🔸Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

✅The world’s highest volcanoes are in the Andes, including Ojos del Salado (~6,890 m high) on the Chile-Argentina border.

✅The highest peak is Mount Aconcagua (6,962 m) (volcanic origin, but now it’s dormant).

✅Climate-Precipitation varies widely

✅Vegetation -Andean soils are relatively young



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🔆Andes Mountains

✅ Source edubaba

✅Type -Volcanic Arc

✅The Andes were formed as a result of convergent tectonic plate boundary processes, caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate (oceanic crust) beneath the South American Plate.

✅They are also part of the American Cordillera

✅Length - 7,000 Km.

✅Location-Continuous highland along the western edge of South America
🔸Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

✅The world’s highest volcanoes are in the Andes, including Ojos del Salado (~6,890 m high) on the Chile-Argentina border.

✅The highest peak is Mount Aconcagua (6,962 m) (volcanic origin, but now it’s dormant).

✅Climate-Precipitation varies widely

✅Vegetation -Andean soils are relatively young



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