Led by a hydrologist named Pierre Bouguer and a soldier-mathematician named Charles Marie de La Condamine, it was a party of scientists and adventurers who traveled to Peru with the purpose of triangulating distances through the Andes.

在一位名叫皮埃尔·布格的水文工作者和一位名叫查理·玛丽·孔达米纳的军人数学家的率领下，一个由科学家和冒险家组成的小组前往秘鲁，旨在用三角测量法测定穿越安第斯山脉的距离。