The region, one of the steepest and most mountainous areas in the country, features Cilo Mountain with an altitude of 4,135 meters, Mount Sümbül with an altitude of 3,467 meters and nearly 30 peaks with altitudes over 3,000 meters.

Ciudad Perdida is the archaeological site of an ancient city in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It is believed to have been founded about 800 CE, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu. This location is also known as "Teyuna" and "Buritaca

Club Andino Bariloche is a mountaineering organization based in San Carlos de Bariloche, in the Argentinian Andes. It was founded on the 13th of August 1931 by Otto Meiling, Emilio Frey, Juan Javier Neumeyer, and Reinaldo Knapp.

Colca Canyon, a river canyon in southern Peru famed as one of the world's deepest, is a well-known trekking destination. It's a habitat for the giant Andean condor, on view from overlooks like Cruz del Condor.

Colorado, a western U.S. state, has a diverse landscape of arid deserts, river canyons, and the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, which are partly protected by Rocky Mountain National Park.

Colorado is a state in the western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of Colorado.

El Corazón is a location in the Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador. It is the seat of the Pangua Canton.

Apolobamba is a mountain range in the South American Andes.

The Cordillera Blanca is a mountain range in Peru that is part of the larger Andes range and extends for 200 kilometres between 8°08' and 9°58'S and 77°00' and 77°52'W, in a northwesterly direction.

The Talamanca mountain range, rising above the clouds in the continental divide, is home to the mountain rainforest or cloud forest.

The region has unexplored areas and is home to many birds such as the Quetzal and a large number of mammals.