Canta is a small village at nearly 3000 metres altitude on the foot hills of the Andes, approximately 100 km north east of Lima.  According to weatherspark.com the climate year round is dry with minimal wind speeds, average seasonal temperatures which dont drop below -2 C or exceed 18 C.

Here are a few photos:

 Above, a typical adobe brick building, see below the window, mud blocks.

Above, Canta and not alot of vegetation.






Left, a typical street.

And here in the main plaza on Trifolium (clover) apis mellifera or a close relative surviving at this altitude!

I shouldn't have been so concerened about my bees surviving at 300 metres near Halifax, West Yorkshire.