It will be remembered that the Beni reaches away up into the illimani mountains, with its springs not far distant from the summit of the Andes.
"Boy Scouts in an Airship"
G. Harvey Ralphson
In the latter, civilization had its earliest seat in the South American plateaux where the small Alpine lake of Titicaca bathes the feet of the colossal mountains of Sorata and illimani.
"COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1"
Alexander von Humboldt