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Usage

The layout design for these subpages is at Portal:Latin America/Selected picture/Layout.

  1. Add a new Selected picture to the next available subpage.
  2. Update "max=" to new total for its {{Random portal component}} on the main page.

Selected pictures list

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Huayna Picchu towers above the ruins of Machu Picchu
Credit: Martin St-Amant

Macchu Picchu, a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. The ruins are an UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

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Hands at the Cuevas de las Manos upon Río Pinturas, near the town of Perito Moreno in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Credit: Mariano

Cueva de las Manos, (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) is a cave located in the province of Santa Cruz, famous for the paintings of hands, made by the indigenous inhabitants (possibly forefathers of the Tehuelches) some 9,000 years ago.

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Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island
Credit: Aurbina

A Moai, a monolithic human figure carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500.

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A captive, resting Mexican Wolf at the Minnesota Zoo
Credit: Marumari

A Mexican Wolf, the rarest, most genetically distinct subspecies of the Gray Wolf in North America. It is also one of the smallest subspecies, reaching an overall length no greater than 135 cm.

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Climbers on Alpamayo mountain in Peru
Credit: Brad Mering

Alpamayo, one of the most conspicuous peaks in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Peruvian Andes. It is a steep, almost perfect pyramid of ice, one of a number of peaks that compose the northernmost massif of the Cordillera Blanca..

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A gaucho from Argentina, circa 1868
Credit: Library of Congress

Portrait of an Argentine gaucho, a term commonly used to describe residents of the South American pampas, chacos, or Patagonian grasslands, found principally in parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Chile, and Southern Brazil.

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