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Which is the highest Capital in me world?

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La Paz, the Capital of Bolivia, is 11,912 ft (3,631 m) above sea level. Bolivia is the highest country in the Andes, the mountain Chain that extends from north to south all the way down the western coast of South America. It is the longest mountain chain in the world.

Tell me morę: the Andes

Colombia

Ecuador

venezuela

Peru

Boivia

Argentina_

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The Andes

The Andes

01: Length

5,500 miles (8,900 km)

02: Maximum width

398 miles (640 km)

03: Highest mountain

Aconcagua (Argentina) 22,841 ft (6,962 m)

04: Highest active volcano

Ojos del Salado (Argentina/Chile) 22,608 ft (6,891 m)

05: Highest navigable lakę (in the world)

Lakę Titicaca (Bolivia/Pem)

12,507 ft (3,812 m)

06: Largest salt fiat (in the world)

Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) 4,085 sq miles (10,582 sq km)

Living at altitude

^gk Many people in the I central Andes (Bolivia and Peru) live above 10,000 ft (3,000 m).

^jujjL At high altitudes,

I the oxygen in the atmosphere thins, making it difflcult to breathe.

The body adjusts by I increasing the lung size to absorb morę oxygen.

Morę oxygen-I carrying red blood cells are produced.

^kgk Shepherds in Peru I sometimes live at morę than 17,000 ft (5,000 m). Phew!

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