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    Altiplano de Sierra Nevada (previously called Norte de Granada) is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the autonomous...
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    Sierra Nevada, also known as Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, is a major ignimbrite-lava dome complex which lies in both Chile and Argentina in one of...
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    Orinoco River, and Catatumbo River. Within it, the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy (with the only snowy peaks in this mountain...
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    registered vino de la tierra wines in Spain. Andalusia Altiplano de Sierra Nevada Bailén Cádiz Córdoba Cumbres del Guadalfeo Desierto de Almería Laderas...
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  • Topography The altiplano consists of a high plain (700 –1000 metres) surrounded by several high mountain ranges; Sierra Castril and Sierra del Pozo to the...
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    Sierra Nevada del Cocuy Chita or Guican National Natural Park (or Sierra Nevada de Chita or Sierra Nevada de Güicán, Spanish: Parque Natural Sierra Nevada...
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    mainstream quality wine regions in Spain are referred to as denominaciones de origen protegidas (DOP) (similar to the French Appellations) and the wine...
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    shares the Sierra Nevada National Park (in the Sierra Nevada mountain range) with Almería province. Another important range is the Sierra de Baza. The...
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    2009. "Indicación Geográfica Protegida Cordero de las Sierras de Segura y La Sagra". Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca. Retrieved November 17, 2009...
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    Universidad Glacier Yelcho Glacier Nevado del Ruiz Ritacuba Blanco Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Snow Mountain of Quindio Antisana El Altar Cayambe Chimborazo...
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    Boyacá, and the Tairona, who settled along the northern spur of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira departments...
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    The Muisca inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Andes before the arrival of the Spanish and were an advanced civilisation. They mummified...
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    similar to those peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Kogui, Ijka, Wiwa, and Kankuamo) and the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy (U'wa). Zipa Saguamanchica...
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  • List of Muisca and pre-Muisca sites (category Archaeological sites of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense)
    Investigaciones en Villa de Leiva, 1-18. Valverde, Alejandra. 2007. Prácticas funerarias desde la arqueología: El caso de las momias de la Sierra Nevada del Cocuy -...
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    brought the Spanish into first contact with the Muisca inhabiting the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, including around Lake Guatavita. The lake is now a focus...
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    jumping-off point for regional tourist destinations such as Villa de Leyva, Paipa, and Sierra Nevada del Cocuy. It is a stop on the Pan American Highway which...
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    Cordillera Occidental and the Altiplano. Numerous volcanoes occur in the region, including Laguna Amarga, Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, Laguna Escondida...
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    the harsh cold of the Altiplano (e.g., La Paz) and the year-round humid heat of the Amazon Basin (e.g., Santa Cruz de la Sierra). Tarija has a population...
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    2007-04-13. Ort, M. H.; de Silva, S.; Jiminez, N.; Salisbury, M.; Jicha, B. R. and Singer, B. S. (2009). Two new supereruptions in the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex...
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    arqueología: El caso de las momias de la Sierra Nevada del Cocuy - Funerary practices in archaeology: The study of Sierra Nevada del Cocuy's mummies,...
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    Colombia, and Ecuador. At the northern end of the Andes, the separate Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range is often but not always treated as part of the Northern...
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    centre of Villa de Leyva is located in an intermontane valley on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at 2,149 metres (7,051 ft). The area of Villa de Leyva was inhabited...
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    Oruro (category Populated places in the Altiplano)
    the Altiplano, approximately 3,709 meters (12,169 ft) above sea level. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by population, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El...
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    level, in the Hoya de Baza, a valley of the Sierra Nevada, not far from the Gallego River. This town gives its name to the Sierra de Baza. The dome-shaped...
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    trajectory to the northeast, it lines up with the highest peak of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy. S M C B O Throughout the territories of the Muisca Confederation...
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    Chicamocha Canyon (category Altiplano Cundiboyacense)
    undergoing a tectonically active phase of the Andean orogeny. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta was emplaced during the Eocene and active subduction of...
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    located in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Mérida. In 1910, maps made by the explorer Alfredo Jahn showed the Sierra Nevada glaciers covering about 1...
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    with the brothers de Quesada and more than 700 soldiers and 80 horses went first east and then south passing the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on their...
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    of the Zorro, Serrania de las Quinchas and the Andean plateaus of Rusia, Guantivá, Pisba, Chontales and Rechiniga. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense, shared...
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  • the Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas. The major inflow to Salar de Pedernales comes from Rio Ola, which drains the southern part of the Salar de Pedernales...
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