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An Underrated Culinary Paradise With Majestic Volcanoes Is Known As Peru's 'White City'
Nestled below the natural giant of the Misti Volcano, Arequipa is Peru's second-largest city in terms of population. The name Arequipa is believed to have come from the language of the Aymara ...
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Wildfires Pose a Threat to Volcanic Soils in the Peruvian Andes
Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.
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Wildfires in the Andes cause severe soil degradation that hinders ecosystem recovery, study shows
In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano ... the volcanic soils of Arequipa—one of the driest regions in the world—are not ...