Andes
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3.1
- proper noun
- /ˈændiz/
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Andes
- The poorest areas of the Peruvian Andes are those that provide water to the coast.
- Peruvian Andes
- Venezuelan Andes
- central Andes
So there's Asia on this side, the Andes in South America on this side.
- So there's Asia on this side, the Andes in South America on this side.
- It's the main remedy for altitude sickness in the Andes.
- I climbed the Andes, I climbed Mongolia, I climbed Argentina and then in China.
- So we have, we have a slideshow made with the photos that we got from recent trips, two different parts of the Andes.
- So she, you know, travels to the Amazon and and the Andes, and a lot of that goes into the descriptions of the environment and the fauna in in this work.
- I've spent time, tremendous amounts of time with the shaman in the high Andes of Bolivia and Peru.
- So Kippu were the main record keeping device in pre Columbian Andes.
- I don't know, the Andes mountains never in range.
Examples
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Luis remembered, with nostalgia, the Andes: the snow-capped peaks, white even in summer.
Fiction book (1992) -
We fly from Iquitos over the headwaters of the Amazon, across the Andes, and out into the Pacific.
Academic text (2008) -
It's probably a mountain range, the Andes.
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A couple of scientists who do research in the mountain range of the Andes discover a hole that goes right through Earth.
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So there's Asia on this side, the Andes in South America on this side.
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The details of pre-Columbian settlement in this northernmost spur of the Andes are not well known.
Academic text (1996) -
Seventy percent of the 1.5 million people in the Andes live in cities (Vivas 1992, 163).
Academic text (1996) -
The sun was rising over the Andes, turning the Pacific a pinkish blue.
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His family has been growing potatoes here in the Andes for hundreds of years.
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In the 13th century, the Inca Empire thrived in the Andes Mountain region of South America.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Andes comes from the Quechua word anti, which meant 'east' or 'high crest' in the language of the people who lived near the mountains. So Andes became the name for the long, high mountain range in western South America.