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Valle Mendoza | Las Cuevas panorama |
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The small village of Las Cuevas once served as a railway station close to the Argentine-Chilean border. Only few inhabitants have remained after the rail traffic had discontinued. The deposits of the prehistoric Cerro Tolosa rock avalanches appear in the centre of the image.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Thursday 15 February 2018 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- glacial processes, glacier, high-mountain ecosystems, landslide, lightscape, lost place, mountainscape, mountaintop, puna, risk management, rock avalanche, villagescape, Zonobiome III
- Visits and license
- 17487 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license