{"id":2837,"date":"2026-04-22T19:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:07:06","slug":"consider-the-following-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/prelims\/consider-the-following-countries","title":{"rendered":"Consider the following countries:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bolivia\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brazil\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colombia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ecuador\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paraguay\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Venezuela\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Andes mountains<\/strong>&nbsp;pass through how many of the above countries?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Only two\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only three\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Only four\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only five\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) Only four&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Andes Mountains\u00a0are one of the\u00a0<strong>longest continental mountain ranges in the world, stretching about 7,000 km along the western coast of South America, from Venezuela in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Andean Mountains, or Andes, passes through\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Venezuela.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ecuador.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peru<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bolivia.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Colombia.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Argentina.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Brazil does not lie within the Andes Mountain range<\/strong>. Brazil is\u00a0<strong>east of the Andes<\/strong>\u00a0and geographically separated from it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Andes\u00a0<strong>do not pass through Paraguay<\/strong>. Paraguay lies\u00a0<strong>east of the Andes<\/strong>, on the\u00a0<strong>Paraguayan Plateau<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andes were\u00a0<strong>formed by the collision of the Nazca and South American tectonic plates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Highest Peak<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Mount Aconcagua<\/strong>\u00a0(6,961 m) in Argentina; it is the highest peak outside of Asia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Chimborazo\u2019s Bulge<\/strong>: Due to the Earth\u2019s equatorial bulge, the peak of\u00a0<strong>Mt. Chimborazo<\/strong>\u00a0in Ecuador is the point on Earth farthest from its centre.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Altiplano<\/strong>: The world\u2019s\u00a0<strong>second-highest plateau<\/strong>\u00a0(after Tibet), located mainly in Bolivia and Peru.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rain Shadow Effect<\/strong>: The mountains block Pacific winds, creating the hyper-arid\u00a0<strong>Atacama Desert<\/strong>\u00a0to the west while fueling the lush\u00a0<strong>Amazon Rainforest<\/strong>\u00a0on the eastern slopes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Climatic Divisions<\/strong>: Categorized into three zones:\u00a0<strong>Tropical Andes<\/strong>\u00a0(North),\u00a0<strong>Dry Andes<\/strong>\u00a0(Central), and\u00a0<strong>Wet Andes<\/strong>\u00a0(South).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andes-Mountain.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53868\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andes mountains&nbsp;pass through how many of the above countries?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Answer: (c) Only four&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[37],"years":[63],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prelims","category-upsc","tag-geography","years-63"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"},{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":63,"label":"2025"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1},{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}