Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How do people use an area of
fold mountains? Case study:
The Andes
- Farming
(Bolivia)
- Subsistence farmers
- Cash crops
- Variety of crops grown on the steep slopes
- E.g. potatoes which are the locals' main source of food
- Flat land retains water in areas that receive very little
- Female llamas
- Exploited
- Key terms
- Terrace
- Subsistence
- Those who farm to provide food for themselves and their family
- Irrigation
- Hydroelectrical power
- Steep slopes and narrow valleys limit farming but benefit HEP
- Melting winter snow increases water supply
- More energy created
- In 2009 the El Platanal plant begain to generate electricity
- Mining
- More than half of Peru's exports are from mining
- YANACOCHA GOLD MINE
- Largest in the world
- Provides jobs thus income
- Andes has a range of important minerals
- E.g. tin, nickel, silver
and gold
- Mountain sprayed with cyanide to
destroy everything but gold
- Contaminates water supply
- Tourism
- MACHU PICCHU
- Machu Picchu is inhospitable bc remains of early settlements build by the
Incas are protected
- Natural attractions
- Mountain peaks, volcanoes, glaciers and lakes.
- Location
- Extend down the West coast of South America
- Borders 7 countries
- Argentina,
Bolivia,
Chile,
Columbia,
Ecuador,
Peru and
Venezuela