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The North American Cordillera extends from the U.S. state of Alaska to the southern border of Mexico, and includes some of the highest peaks on the continent. [5] Its mountain ranges generally run north-to-south along three main belts: the Pacific Coast Ranges in the west, the Nevadan belt in the middle (including the Sierra Nevada ), and the ...
The Pacific Coast Ranges are part of the North American Cordillera (sometimes known as the Western Cordillera, or in Canada, as the Pacific Cordillera and/or the Canadian Cordillera), which includes the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia Mountains, the Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and ...
The American Cordillera (/ ˌ k ɔːr d əl ˈ j ɛ r ə / KOR-dəl-YERR-ə) is a chain of mountain ranges (cordilleras), consisting of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of the Americas. [2] Aconcagua is the highest peak of the chain.
The Pacific Cordillera, also known as the Western Cordillera or simply The Cordillera, is a top-level physiographic region of Canada, referring mainly to the extensive cordillera system in Western and Northwestern Canada that constitutes the northern part of the North American Cordillera.
The old Cordilleran culture, also known as the Cascade phase, is an ancient culture of Native Americans that settled in the Pacific Northwestern region of North America that existed from 9000 or 10000 BC until about 5500 BC. The Cascade phase may be even older, depending on when human beings first arrived in America.
Cordillera Neovolcánica, an active volcanic belt in Mexico; Mexican Cordillera, consisting of the Juarez Segment, the Huayacocotla Segment, the Victoria Segment, and the Nuevoleones Cordillera; Cordillera de los Andes (also called the Andes Mountains or South American Cordillera), comprising the mountain ranges of western South America ...
The Spanish name sierra madre means "mother mountain range" in English, and occidental means "western", these thus being the "Western mother mountain range". [1] To the east, from the Spanish oriental meaning "eastern" in English, the Sierra Madre Oriental range or "Eastern mother mountain range" runs generally parallel to the Sierra Madre Occidental along eastern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
The North American Cordillera, along the western side of North America; Mountain ranges in the Andes of South America: Cordillera Occidental (Central Andes), in Bolivia and Chile; Cordillera Occidental (Colombia) Cordillera Occidental (Ecuador) Cordillera Occidental (Peru) Part of the Cordillera Central (Luzon) in the Philippines; A mountain ...