The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...

A major mineral deposit discovered in the Andes Mountains along the Argentina-Chile border contains significant quantities of ...

Patagonia, a land where nature reigns supreme, offers a dramatic mix of wild glaciers, towering mountains, and serene lakes ...

High in the cloud-wrapped peaks of the Cordillera de Huancabamba, where the Andes dip and twist into isolated ridges, a team ...

Native to rocky regions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, these chinchilla relatives ... Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), mountain viscachas prefer the high altitudes of the Andes and ...

Ecuador, located in South America, is famous for the Galapagos Islands with their unique wildlife, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest. It's named for the equator passing through it.

A railway line at the bottom of South America, originally built to serve a prison, has been reinvented for tourists to enjoy ...

The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious disappearance ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were ...