#andean countries

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High altitude lakes: Willcacocha in the Cordillera Negra near Huaraz, Peru

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Birdquest field breakfast above the clouds (6434) along the Celendín - Balsas road (North Perú) by Marcell Claassen

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Birdwatching along mountain ridge trails 6456_ San Lorenzo, La Florida Pomacochas (North Perú) by Marcell Claassen

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Green Marañon Valley nestled between the mountains that have roads leading up well over 3,000m altitude.

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Booted Racket-tail with a tail still growing 7450_ Fundo Alta Nieva (San Martin, Peru) by Marcell Claassen

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Venezuela and Colombia have agreed to create a special exchange rate to boost plummeting bilateral trade between the two Andean countries, their presidents said. The exchange rate will be set at a later date and will enable each country to trade in its own currency and exchange any trade surplus into an international currency. "We have established a system, a mechanism for bilateral payments, to facilitate the financial aspect of trade," said Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos after a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in the Colombian coastal city Cartagena on Friday. Source: Reuters

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PERU vs Chile - INCAS vs Mapuche | Interesting historical and present day facts between the rival older and younger brothers!

PERU vs Chile - INCAS vs Mapuche | Interesting historical facts between rival older and younger brothers!  

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Inca noble Huamán Poma de Ayala's picture about the confrontation between the Mapuches (left) and the Incas (right)

The Mapuche successfully resisted many attempts by the Inca Empire to subjugate them, despite their lack of state organization. They fought against the Sapa Inca, Tupac Yupanqui (The orginal Tupac, late rapper Tupac Shakur named himself after the Inca King) as in, and his army. The result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river. 

Sebastian Piñera, Billionaire President of Chile, is the only known direct descendant of the Inca King Huayna Capac!

The powerful Inca King and living god Huayna Capac ((1464/1488—1525/1527) was the last full-blooded Inca - He was the "INCA"!  He was the last rule of the Inca Empire, the largest pre-Hispanic empire in all the Americas "The Rome of the Americas", which lands included present day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru (parts of Western Brazil), Boliva, Chile, and Argentina.