Andean

When Quito entered lockdown in March 2020, the streets of Ecuador’s hilly Andean capital didn’t quite empty out.

Meiburg schleps across the continent himself to trace this lineage and learn what he can from the Johnny rook’s caracara cousins currently dwelling in Guyanese jungles, altiplano deserts, and remote Andean valleys.

Llama dressingToday it’s not unusual to see llamas dressed in colorful costumes in public squares in Andean towns.

For example, the Qhapaq Qolla dance, celebrated each July in Paucartambo, Peru, recognizes llamas and their herders as powerful parts of an Andean “cosmovision,” or understanding of the universe.

It was consumed for thousands of years in the northern Andean region of South America, but was little known beyond there.

Soon enough, I felt my own guts rebelling and stepped out into the crystalline Andean night.

At least 50,000 families in the Andean highlands rely on herding alpaca for income and to sustain themselves.

But more than rogue diplomacy was on display in the Andean escape.

What's more, many offer Andean music and folk dancers in traditional costume.

The Andean nation depends on the U.S. for trade deals that help employ over 400,000 people.

Such missiles were used in war by some of the Andean tribes.

I was a prisoner in the hands of a Trans-Andean tribe, and they turned me adrift.

The Antillean mountains in a general way connect or intervene between the Pacific and the Andean cordilleras.

The earthquakes that shake the Andean cities to their foundations they have never known and can never know.

All are east of the Andean ranges and partially sheltered from the westerly storms.