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earth's longest tantrum, still rising an inch a century out of sheer spite for the pacific plate.
means a mountain range running the length of south america, formed by one tectonic plate diving under another and crumpling the coast upward.
from from the quechua anti, meaning 'east' or the eastern region of the inca empire — the range that named itself before geologists showed up with theories.
lengthabout 7000 km, longest continental range on earth
birthplacepotatoes were domesticated here first
altitude cityla paz sits above 3600 meters
still climbinggrows roughly a centimeter every few years