Americas – Touriza

Continent: Americas

An Inca capital wearing a baroque overcoat at 3,400m.

A grid that rewards walking and looking up.

A lake bed at 2,240m with the best eating in the Americas.

Two coastlines, three Andean ranges and the coffee belt between them.

Colonial squares, 1950s bodywork and son played at street level.

4,300km long and rarely more than 180km wide.

Five per cent of the planet's biodiversity on 0.03% of its land.

Glaciers at one end, subtropical falls at the other.

Desert coast, Andean spine, Amazon basin — in one day's travel.

A continent's worth of coastline, rainforest and wetland.