Glaciers in Peru’s Central Andes could disappear by the 2050s, a study says. A village in Checacupa, in the southern Cusco region of the Peruvian Andes, used to hold a ceremony to prepare a glacial lagoon to collect water, said Richart Aybar Quispe Soto, a local hospital worker. It was a ritual that honored the apus, the spirits of the mountains and water, he said. New research suggests that glaciers and water in the central range, closer to the capital, Lima, could suffer the same fate.