For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A fight among inmates has left at least 15 dead and 14 injured at Ecuador's largest prison, authorities said Tuesday. The Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil ...

Photo: UNGRD/X Torrential rainfall across Colombia’s Pacific coast and Andean regions has displaced more than 90,000 people, ...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru and China will sign an updated free-trade agreement during President Xi Jinping's ...

Researchers are trying to protect the real-life Paddington Bear over fears deforestation could threaten their habitats.

Hundreds of Bolivian devotees have arrived at the municipal cemetery of La Paz carrying human skulls adorned with flowers for ...

Some of the remaining bears live within the Andean Bear Corridor, a region sitting along the spine of the Andes that stretches from Peru and into Ecuador. It’s here that a team of researchers from the ...

When most folks think of ideas of freedom and democracy, people imagine the origins are in ancient Athens. And ancient Athens did, indeed, give us something like democracy…except if you were a woman, ...

People don't put themselves last to work ... My reality is running past goats by the river and finding energy in the Andean mountains, things that initially terrified me. This lifestyle hasn ...