Almost all of the northern component of the vary has an elevation of about four,000 m (13,123 ft); the southern section is to some degree lessen. Rainfall, Whilst scanty everywhere you go, is bigger while in the northern here fifty percent, in which the land is covered with scrub vegetation. The southern area gets Just about no precipitation, along with the landscape consists largely of barren rocks. All the Cordillera Occidental regions are sparsely populated, and the south is pretty much uninhabited.