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The Cordillera Oriental (English: Eastern Ranges) is the widest of the three branches of the Colombian Andes.The range extends from south to north, dividing from the Colombian Massif in Huila Department to Norte de Santander Department where it splits into the Serranía del Perijá and the Cordillera de Mérida in Venezuelan Andes.
The Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central form the western and eastern sides of a massive crystalline arch, which extends from the Caribbean lowlands to the southern border of Ecuador. [1] The Cordillera Oriental, however, is composed of folded stratified rocks overlying a crystalline core.
The Serranía de Los Motilones is a mountain range in the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia and Venezuela. A forest reserve zone exists within the range and spans 998,581 hectares (2,467,550 acres). [1] [2]
Cordillera Oriental ("eastern mountains"), several mountain ranges share the name, such as the one in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru; Cordillera de la Costa ("coastal mountains") of Chile; Cordillera Paine, in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia; Cordillera de la Costa of Venezuela; Annamese Cordillera (Annamite Range), in ...
The Cordillera Oriental montane forests (NT0118) is an ecoregion in Venezuela and Colombia along the east slopes of the eastern cordillera of the Andes. The extensive region of submontane and montane forests includes distinctive flora and fauna in the north, center and southern sections. The ecoregion is home to numerous endemic species of fauna.
The Cordillera Occidental (English: Western Ranges) is the lowest in elevation of the three branches of the Colombian Andes. The average altitude is 2,000 m (6,600 ft) and the highest peak is Cerro Tatamá at 4,100 m (13,500 ft).
The Tamá is a prolongation of the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes. It is separated from the Cordillera de Mérida in the Venezuelan Andes by the Táchira depression, which more than 50 million years ago was a strait that connected Lake Maracaibo with the Orinoco basin. [1] Elevations range from 320 to 3,329 metres (1,050 to 10,922 ft).
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.