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This colorful Peruvian peak looks like giant sand art

Popkin
Jan 14, 2026
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Rainbow Mountain is a natural wonder in Pitumarca, Peru. This unique mountain is striped in brilliant red, green, purple, and orange tones. It looks like sand art, but it’s 100% naturally occurring. Rainbow Mountain gets its gorgeous colors from the area’s sediment and atmosphere, which sit high in the Andes near the oce…

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