Bayo Mountain

Bayo Mountain rises in the high Andean country of the Altiplano, a broad plateau of cold, dry air at an elevation of roughly 3,750 metres. Llama and vicuña herders grazed the high pastures, and llama caravans carried salt and goods between the plateau and the valleys below. The Inca had roads through these highlands, and the Spanish conquest brought mining towns and new tribute demands to the region in the sixteenth century.