Many of the northern portion of this assortment has an elevation of about 4,000 m (13,123 ft); the southern part is to some degree lessen. Rainfall, While scanty in all places, is larger inside the northern fifty percent, where the land is roofed with scrub vegetation. The southern place gets Virtually no precipitation, and also the landscape is composed generally of barren rocks. more Most of the Cordillera Occidental areas are sparsely populated, and also the south is virtually uninhabited.