Alturas - Inti Illimani

Alturas (Heights) - A song by Inti Illimani. Follow a condor’s flight over the Andes mountain in the slideshow. For well over 30 years, Inti-Illimani (the name translates as “Sun God“) has held a beacon for Chilean music, both the traditional folk styles and the more contemporary nueva cancion. Back in 1967 a group of students at Santiago’s Technical University formed a band to perform folk music. Taking their name from the Aymaran Indian language of the Andes, they began playing traditional music — someth