The answer to the question of can Argentina become a petroleum power will undoubtedly shape both the country and the ...

But a side path leads into the trees where the forest opens to amazing views of the city and the Andes in the distance. The mountains rise up like a curtain wall, crowned by a long buttress of ...

We're 3600 metres above sea level and for reasons unexplained, there's a canoe on the lawn outside the Chilcabamba Mountain Lodge where I'm booked to stay the next two nights. As incongruous as ...

Native to South America, spectacled bears are classified as vulnerable and typically live in the Andes mountains at altitudes of up to 5,000 metres. According to Ähtäri Zoo, the wild population of ...

Parrado, 56, is perhaps the best-known of the 16 survivors of the crash of a Uruguayan Air Force plane in the Andes Mountains in October 1972 as it was carrying his rugby team to a match in Chile.

At the center is Cerro San Cristóbal, with breathtaking views of wildflowers, pine forests and the Andes Mountains. NPR's Brian Mann made the trek, where he ventured through forested hills of ...