Perched sky-high in the Andes at the foot of the snow-capped Pichincha volcano, Quito is—quite literally ... The city's dramatic setting squeezed between mountain peaks and straddling two ...

High in the Andes of northern Ecuador, cities sit in the shadow of mountains and ancient volcanoes covered in dense forest.

Recent research by Bowling Green State University scientists has sent shockwaves through the bird-watching world after ...

Over thousands of years, evolution has helped the Aymara people of the high plains of Andes mountains adjust to altitudes as high as 14,400 feet (2.75 miles) above sea level. This indigenous ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded ... built was San Francisco de Quito – constructed on top of the ...