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Malibu Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains. The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System [1] in the United States; French: chaînes côtières du Pacifique; Spanish: cadena costera del Pacífico) [2] are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.
The Pacific Coast Ranges — a major mountain range system, geologic province, and physiographic region in western North America. The system's ranges run from western Canada , south along the West Coast U.S. states , and through the Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
Pacific Coast Ranges: Cascade-Sierra Mountains Northern Cascade Mountains Middle Cascade Mountains Southern Cascade Mountains Sierra Nevada: Pacific Border province: Aleutian Islands: Boundary Ranges: Puget Trough: Olympic Mountains: Oregon Coast Range: Klamath Mountains: California Trough: California Coast Ranges: Transverse Ranges (Los ...
[7] [8] The northern boundary is the Columbia River, with some mountainous features on the north side of the river, and continues south for approximately 100 miles (160 km) to the Salmon River where Oregon Route 18 crosses the range from the Willamette Valley to the Oregon Coast with width roughly 35 miles (60 km).
The mountain range's name derives from its proximity to the sea coast, and it is often referred to as the Coast Range. [2] The range includes volcanic and non-volcanic mountains and the extensive ice fields of the Pacific and Boundary Ranges , and the northern end of the volcanic system known as the Cascade Volcanoes .
The Central Pacific coastal forests stretch from the Chetco River in southwestern Oregon to the northern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.It differs from the Coast Range ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States in that it includes the entirety of Vancouver Island and excludes the coastal forests of Northern California.
The Pacific Coastal Plain is located in Mexico.This region lies along the Pacific coastline from Alaska to Mexico. The plains range is from the Mexican border with the United States to Cape Corrientes, about range of about half the western coast of Mexico, and includes Baja California [1].One physical feature of this region is that it has mountains bordering the ocean.
The Northern Pacific coastal forests are temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the Pacific coast of North America. It occupies a narrow coastal zone of Alaska, between the Pacific Ocean and the northernmost Pacific Coast Ranges, covering an area of 23,300 square miles (60,400 square kilometers), extending from the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska along the Gulf of Alaska to the ...