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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').
The Cordillera, having extended through Central America, continues through South America and even to the Antarctic. In South America, the Cordillera is known as the Andes Mountains . The Andes, with their parallel chains and the island chains off the coast of Chile , extend through Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia , Argentina ...
The precise boundaries of this cordillera and its subregions, as well as the names of its various features, may differ depending on the definitions in each country or jurisdiction, and also depending on the scientific field; this cordillera is a particularly prominent subject in the scientific field of physical geography. [3] [4]
The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR; Ilocano: Rehion/Deppaar Administratibo ti Kordiliera; Filipino: Rehiyong Pampangasiwaan ng Cordillera), also known as the Cordillera Region and Cordillera (IPA: [kɔrdiljɛra]), is an administrative region in the Philippines, situated within the island of Luzon.
American Cordillera – 13,400 km (8,300 mi) Andes – 7,000 km (4,300 mi). 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)
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 Pacific Ring of Fire includes the Andes of South America, extends through the North American Cordillera, the Aleutian Range, on through Kamchatka Peninsula, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, to New Zealand. [3] The Andes is 7,000 kilometres (4,350 mi) long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system. [4]
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