While there are indeed dangerous creatures to be wary of, akin to those found in the Smoky Mountains or the Amazon Rainforest, the Andes harbor a wealth of fascinating and unique wildlife waiting ...

The group then traveled into the Amazon rainforest by way of Cessna airplane ... different eco-systems such as cloud forests, the subtropic rainforest, and then back into the Andes Mountains. The ...

The rainforest spreads over four different ... The source (start) of the Amazon River is in the Andes Mountain range in Peru. It flows northwards through Brazil with its mouth taking water into ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto On the western slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers spent ... in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, according to an April 11 study ...

As well as the Amazon rainforest and the high mountains of the Andes, South America is home to some spectacular waterfalls. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world ...