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Cordillera Real

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Cordillera Re·al  (r-äl)
A range of the Andes with branches in western Bolivia and central Ecuador.


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Bolivia has also been called the Nepal of the Americas, for its Cordillera Real with almost a thousand peaks soaring over 5,000 meters and matching anything the Himalayas can offer in climbing and trekking, but with much less of the human traffic.
Extending like a turquoise jewel at the foot of the majestic Cordillera Real mountain range, it is lavishly blessed with sunshine, crystal clear water and millennia old terraced fields.
The canyon, on the northern flank of Illimani in the Cordillera Real, plunges 5,084 feet from top to bottom and stretches 12,300 feet from rim to rim.
 
 
 
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