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In Canada, the North American Cordillera is usually divided into three physiographic regions: the western system, the interior system, and the eastern system. [16] The western system includes the Coast Mountains , the interior system includes the Columbia Mountains , and the eastern system includes the Canadian Rockies .
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]
Alborz Cordillera, northern Iran (also written as Elburz) American Cordillera, the mountain ranges forming the western backbone of North America and South America. North American Cordillera (also called Pacific Cordillera or Western Cordillera of North America), comprising the mountain ranges of western North America Cordillera Central, Costa Rica
Sierra Nevada (U.S.) – 640 km (400 mi) (section of the North American Cordillera) California Coast Ranges – 640 km (400 mi) (section of the North American Cordillera) Balkan Mountains – 557 km (346 mi) (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Karakoram – 500 km (310 mi) (section of the Hindu Kush-Greater Himalayas region)
This list of North American deserts identifies areas of the continent that receive less than 10 in (250 mm) annual precipitation. The "North American Desert" is also the term for a large U.S. Level 1 ecoregion (EPA) [1] of the North American Cordillera, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome (WWF).
Minor and major volcanoes of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, including the Queen Charlotte, Denali and Tintina fault zones. The geography of northwestern British Columbia and Yukon, Canada is dominated by volcanoes of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province formed due to continental rifting of the North American Plate.
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 ...
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