If you decided to discuss the subduction zones under the South American plate, including the Benioff zones and the Nazca plate, please, allow me to pay you attention at one very interesting natural fact that has no explanation yet.
It is revelad recently (attachment) that the southern boundary of the Nazca plate is magnetically conjugate with the northern boundaries of the Cococ and Carribian plates. The angle of the subductions here is of about 45 degrees, that is exactly the angle of the geomagnetic Inclination here. This gives a hint that the earthquakes occur along the geomagnetic lines loaned into the crust, that results in the appearing of the subduction line. Attachment is in Russin, but figure captions are in English, thus, are understandable.
The South American Plate is subdivided by some major transcurrent faults, they are orthogonal to the subduction line. This is clearly revealed by the earthquakes. I think the subduction line is also subdivided accordingly. I just published some maps to show the distribution of the earthquakes in South America.
I see on these maps are not inclined (45 deg.) subduction zone, and a series of vertical deep-section zones that are submerged beneath South America partly in the form of steps.