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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 Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Philippines. It comprises about 1/6 of the whole Luzon island with a total area of 22,500 km 2 (8,700 sq mi). The highest mountain in the range, Mount Pulag, is also the highest mountain in Luzon at 2,928 metres (9,606 ft). [1]
At its midsection between San Francisco, California and Denver, Colorado, the North American Cordillera is about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide, and its physiographic provinces at this midpoint are as follows, going from west to east: the Pacific Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Basin and Range Province (forming many narrow ...
A cordillera is a small chain and/or network system of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas.The term is borrowed from Spanish, where the word comes from cordilla, a diminutive of cuerda ('rope').
Northern and Southern Andes main subdivisions, along both run three vast, almost parallel chain systems of mountain ranges – Cordillera Occidental, Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental. North American Cordillera – 6,400 km (4,000 mi) Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt – more than 15,000 km (9,300 mi)
The mountain range begins in the western part of the island in the municipalities of Mayagüez, Maricao, and Las Marías close to the Mona Passage in the west coast of Puerto Rico. Another western portion of the range that is sometimes included in the Cordillera Central, called the Santa Marta Hills , is located to the southwest in the ...
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 mountain ranges in this region were covered during ...
Cordillera Mountains may refer to: American Cordillera, North and South America; Arctic Cordillera, northeastern Canada; Andes in South-America (Cordillera Oriental, Cordillera Occidental, and Chile's Cordillera de la Costa) Cordillera Central (Luzon) in the Philippines