{"id":2704,"date":"2023-02-05T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T01:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:17:12","slug":"the-andes-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-andes-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Andes Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0About Andes Mountains:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Andes is <strong>the longest mountain range in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>TheAndes Mountains <strong>extend over seven countries:<\/strong> <strong>Argentina<\/strong> (Mount Aconcagua), <strong>Bolivia<\/strong> (Huayna Potosi), <strong>Chile<\/strong>, <strong>Colombia<\/strong>, <strong>Ecuador<\/strong>, <strong>Peru<\/strong>, and <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>, known as Andean States.<\/li>\n<li>It is about <strong>5,500 miles (8,900 km) long<\/strong> and <strong>second only to the Himalayas in average elevation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>consists of a succession of parallel and transverse mountain ranges<\/strong>, or cordilleras, and of intervening plateaus and depressions.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>highest elevation<\/strong> in the Andes is <strong>Mount Aconcagua in Argentina<\/strong>, which is 22,841 feet (6,962 m) above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>The Andes are also <strong>home to the world\u2019s highest volcano<\/strong> when measured above sea level, <strong>the Ojos del Salado on the Chile-Argentina border<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Andes Mountains are over <strong>50 million years old<\/strong>, they were created when the <strong>South American and Pacific tectonic plates collided.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about Peru:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Peru is the <strong>third largest country in South America<\/strong>, after Brazil and Argentina.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>made up of a variety of landscape<\/strong>s, from mountains and beaches to deserts and rain forests.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Lima<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The world&#8217;s largest rain forest, the <strong>Amazon, covers nearly half of Peru.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Peru shares <strong>borders with Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the United Nations refugee agency?<\/h3>\n<p>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastcoastdaily.in\/2023\/02\/05\/un-refugee-agency-says-that-seven-haitian-migrants-died-in-the-andean-highlands-of-peru.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>UN refugee agency says that seven Haitian migrants died in the Andean highlands of Peru.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andes is the longest mountain range in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}