High inward the Peruvian Andes , far inward a higher house the tree business , lies an one-time gold-mining campsite that has , over the years , grown to the status of a city. Over thirty ,000 people alive inward this mountainous urban kernel 5 vertical kilometers upward inward the air—the highest-elevation human short town inward the world.
La Rinconada (altitude: 5 ,100 meters) is then high that its atmospheric condition status resembles that of the due west coast of Greenland , despite existence situated entirely xiv degrees from the equator. The summers are moisture too winters dry; the days are mutual coldness too nights freezing. The average annual temperature inward La Rinconada is entirely 1.2 °C.
Lucas Oleniuk / Toronto Star
Washington Post