Source: WTL photo taken from the air over the Peruvian Andes.
Comments: This photo shows how extraordinarily rugged the Andes (la cordillera de los Andes) are. This mountain chain is over 4,400 miles long and up to 300 miles wide. It runs the entire length of the western side of South America. The average height of the peaks is over 13,000 feet, and the highest peak is Aconcagua on the Argentinian and Chilean border, at 22,841 feet high.
Humanities: As far as the themes of Latin American humanities are concerned, this photograph returns us in the course to a starting point of the way in which the magnificence and grandeur of Latin American geography influenced life, societies, and their humanities. See the following page, for example, in the Opening Slide Show #7.