Most of the northern section of the array has an elevation of about four,000 m (13,123 ft); the southern element is relatively reduce. Rainfall, although scanty everywhere, is bigger from the northern 50 percent, the place the land is covered with scrub vegetation. The southern area gets Just about no precipitation, along with the landscape is made up here mainly of barren rocks. All of the Cordillera Occidental locations are sparsely populated, along with the south is practically uninhabited.