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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 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).
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.
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 ...
Ritacuba Blanco is the highest peak of Cordillera Oriental, in the Andes Mountains of Colombia.It's also named Ritak'uwa, an ancient name from the U'wa indigenous people that live in the lowlands of the National Park Sierra Nevada del Cocuy y Güicán, where the Ritacuba Blanco is located.
The Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Perijá or Sierra de Perijá [pe.ɾi.ˈxa] is a mountain range, an extension of the eastern Andean branch (Cordillera Oriental), in northern South America, between Colombia and Venezuela, ending further north in the Guajira Desert, a total distance of about 310 kilometres (190 mi).
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]