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  • Atacama Plateau
    Atacama Plateau

    …as broader valleys known as quebradas, the latter historically important as colonial routes of penetration into the Argentine Andes. Peruvian and Chilean colonizers conducted expeditions through the Andean valleys in the latter half of the 16th century that led to the foundation of some of the oldest towns in Argentina…

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    …as broader valleys known as quebradas, the latter historically important as colonial routes of penetration into the Argentine Andes. Peruvian and Chilean colonizers conducted expeditions through the Andean valleys in the latter half of the 16th century that led to the foundation of some of the oldest towns in Argentina…

    Read More