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Cordillera Oriental

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Cordillera O·rien·tal  (ôr-n-täl, ryn-)
A range of the eastern Andes with branches in central Bolivia, western Colombia, and southeast Peru. Its highest elevation is Salcantay, 6,275.4 m (20,575 ft), in Peru.


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This minute and distinctive species is known only from a single collection made in Santuario Flora y Fauna Iguaque in the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia, where it grows on protected rock ledges in dry paramo with Espeletia at 3536 m.
Los Haitises National Park The Tainos, the original inhabitants of Spanish descent(Hispaniolas), named the impassable mountainous area between the Bahia de Samana and the Cordillera Oriental, which is protected as the Los Haitises National Park.
 
 
 
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