Andes San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, is a very old settlement in one of the rare oases of the desert. (Press on the central arrows to navigate the gallery.)Señor Enrique Cardozo with his wife, raises sheep and grapes in Molinos, a village in northwest Argentina.Celebration of the festival of Santa Cruz in Chiquipata, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.By the colonial church of Chiquipata, Bolivia, during the celebration of the festival of Santa Cruz.At a celebration of the challa, the last day of a fiesta in the town of Toledo, Oruro, in Bolivia.On the last day of Carnival in Oruro, families bring their Virgins to the church to be blessed.Musicians dance in hypnotic circles during the last day of Carnival, in Toledo, Bolivia.Dancers kneel in front the Virgen del Socavón, during the Oruro Carnival.An improvised market along the highway in Achacachi, near Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia.The town of Achacachi is a busy crossroads in the Bolivian altiplano.The silver mines in Potosí have been worked without interruption since 1545.Women going to the carnival celebrations in Tambillo, Bolivia.Campesinos returning home after the fiesta of Santa Cruz in Chiquipata, on the shores of Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca.Sunday stroll in the town of Andarapa in the province of Andahuaylas, in the Peruvian Andes.Celebration of Corpus Cristi in Salasaca, Ecuador.Campesinas harvesting barley in Cayambe, Ecuador.Ceremony to celebrate the inauguration of potable water in the community of Tabla Rumi, Chimborazo, Ecuador.Señora Marylin Cacao with her children in the town of Montecristi, Ecuador.A pause in the sugar cane harvest, Valle del Chota, Ecuador.Good Friday procession in Quito, Ecuador.Señora Laura Etelvina Paucar in the Good Friday procession, Quito, Ecuador.Procession in the town of Olmedo, Ecuador.The most important community of blacks in the mountains of Ecuador is found in Juncal, in the Chota valley.At the cemetery in Sigsig, Ecuador.Jose Trejo (left) surveys the ruins of his house after an earthquake in 1999 that killed a thousand people and left 250.000 homeless in the coffee growing region of Colombia.Emberá Indian women waiting for the endless rain to stop in Brazo, Chocó, Colombia.Sunday bath in Mérida, Venezuela.View of the Caribbean seen from the Santa Marta seawall, Colombia.
