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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 ...
The longest mountain range in the world (above sea level) is the Andes, consisting of several subranges. Cordillera de los Andes, in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela: Cordillera Central, Colombia; Cordillera Occidental, Colombia; Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, Venezuela Serranía del Perijá, Colombia, Venezuela
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.
Central Cordillera refers to the New Guinea Highlands. Cordillera Central, meaning central range in Spanish, may refer to the following mountain ranges: Cordillera Central, Andes (disambiguation), several mountain ranges in South America Cordillera Blanca, Peru; Cordillera Central, Bolivia; Cordillera Central, Colombia; Cordillera Central, Ecuador
Cerro de Punta or Cerro Punta is the highest peak in Puerto Rico, rising to 1,338 meters (4,390 ft) above sea level. [note 1] The mountain is part of the Cordillera Central and is located on the town boundary between the municipalities of Ponce and Jayuya in the central region of the main island of Puerto Rico.
Of these 230 major 100-kilometer summits of North America, 103 are located in the United States (excluding four in Hawaiʻi), 50 in Canada, 33 in México, 21 in Greenland, four in Honduras, three in Cuba, two in Guatemala, two in Haiti, two in Panamá, and one each in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ...
Cantabrian Mountains; Cordillera; Cordillera Central (Colombia) Cordillera Central (Costa Rica) Cordillera Central (Luzon) Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico) Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic; Cordillera de Mérida; Cordillera Occidental (Colombia) Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)
Cordillera Central, Andes (Spanish: "central mountains"), several mountain ranges share the name, such as the one in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru; Cordillera Occidental ("western mountains"), several mountain ranges share the name, such as the one in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru