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Cordilleras

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Cor·dil·le·ras  (kôrdl-yrz, -d-yräs)
The entire complex of mountain ranges in western North America, Mexico, Central America, and South America, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn.
Cordilleras [ˌkɔːdɪlˈjɛərəz (Spanish) korðiˈʎeras]
pl n
(Placename) the. the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains


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On the west, however, rise the Rocky Mountains, that immense range which, commencing at the Straights of Magellan, follows the western coast of Southern America under the name of the Andes or the Cordilleras, until it crosses the Isthmus of Panama, and runs up the whole of North America to the very borders of the Polar Sea.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Some occur among the Cordilleras of the Andes, where cities, and towns, and cultivated farms are to be seen eight thousand feet above the level of the sea.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
, gay king as he was, this position was a grand as the height of one of the loftiest peaks of the Cordilleras.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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