Altiplano in a sentence

Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, stands for his prison mug shot at the Altiplano maximum security federal prison in Almoloya, Mexico.

The court heard details of his 2015 escape from Mexico’s maximum-security Altiplano prison.

Largely indigenous, El Alto sits on the Altiplano highlands above La Paz, which is itself built in a canyon in the mountains of a landlocked country — and looks like no city I’ve ever seen.

Piaget also showed off a concept watch — the Altiplano Ultimate Concept — which is about as thick as a quarter, with the entire watch measuring a tiny 2 mm deep.

A low east-west range divides the altiplano into northern and southern sections.

Central Chile receives a mild winter with large rainfall, and the Peruvian-Bolivian Altiplano is sometimes exposed to unusual winter snowfall events.

On the Western side of the Altiplano divide, about an hour to the West of the La Paz, is the site of the tallest mountain in Bolivia and 9th tallest mountain in the Andes, the Sajama Volcano.

Some areas of the plains territories encompass territory east of the Andes, and the Patagonian steppes and Magellan, or are high plateaus surrounded by high mountain ranges, such as the Altiplano or Puna de Atacama.

The Altiplano has large numbers of lakes and rivers that do not run into any ocean because they are enclosed by the Andean mountains.

The effects of the lower-altitude climate had seriously impaired the effectiveness of the Bolivian army: most of its indigenous soldiers lived on the cold Altiplano at altitudes of over convert.

The satellite city of El Alto, in which the airport is located, is spread over a broad area to the west of the canyon, on the Altiplano.

These two sections, previously called the Mesa del Norte and Mesa Central, are now regarded by geographers as sections of one altiplano.

The southern Altiplano is higher than its northern counterpart, averaging convert in elevation.