An·des

(ăn′dēz)

A mountain system of western South America extending more than 8,000 km (4,970 mi) from Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego parallel to the Pacific coast. The Andes rise at many points to more than 6,500 m (21,325 ft).

An′de·an (ăn′dē-ən, ăn-dē′ən) adj. & n.

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Andes

(ˈændiːz)

pl n

(Placename) a major mountain system of South America, extending for about 7250 km (4500 miles) along the entire W coast, with several parallel ranges or cordilleras and many volcanic peaks: rich in minerals, including gold, silver, copper, iron ore, and nitrates. Average height: 3900 m (13 000 ft). Highest peak: Aconcagua, 6960 m (22 835 ft)

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An•des

(ˈæn diz)

n.pl.

a mountain range in W South America, extending ab. 4500 mi. (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela south to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 ft. (6960 m).

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Noun

Andes - a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast

Argentina, Argentine Republic - a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America

Chile, Republic of Chile - a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast

Colombia, Republic of Colombia - a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language

Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador - a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes

Bolivia, Republic of Bolivia - a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain

Peru, Republic of Peru - a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries

Aconcagua - the highest mountain in the western hemisphere; located in the Andes in western Argentina (22,834 feet high)

Ancohuma - a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,960 feet high)

Bonete - a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,546 feet high)

Cachi - a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high)

Chimborazo - a mountain peak in the Andes in Ecuador (20,560 feet high)

Coropuna - a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high)

El Libertador - a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high)

El Muerto - a mountain peak in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (21,457 feet high)

Galan - a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high)

Huascaran - a mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high)

Illampu - a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high)

Illimani - a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high)

Laudo - a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high)

Llullaillaco - a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,057 feet high)

Mercedario - a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,210 feet high)

Nacimiento - a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,302 feet high)

Ojos del Salado - a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,572 feet high)

Pissis - a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,241 feet high)

Sajama - a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high)

Tupungato - a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,310 feet high)

Yerupaja - a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high)

Translations

جِبَال الأنديز

Andy

Andesbjergene

Andit

Ande

Andok

Ande

アンデス山脈

안데스 산맥

Anderna

เทือกเขาแอนดีส

And Dağları

Dãy núi Andes

安第斯山脉

Andes

[ˈændiːz] NPL the Andes → los Andes

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Andes

[ˈændiːz] npl
the Andes → les Andes fpl

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Andes

pl → Anden pl

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Andes

[ˈændiːz] npl the Andes → le Ande

Andes

→ جِبَال الأنديز Andy Andesbjergene Anden Άνδεις Andes Andit Andes Ande Ande アンデス山脈 안데스 산맥 Andesgebergte Andesfjellene Andy Andes Анды Anderna เทือกเขาแอนดีส And Dağları Dãy núi Andes 安第斯山脉

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which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.

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It was a part of the great system of granite mountains which forms one of the most important and striking features of North America, stretching parallel to the coast of the Pacific from the Isthmus of Panama almost to the Arctic Ocean; and presenting a corresponding chain to that of the Andes in the southern hemisphere.

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So this bright coin came from a country planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that knows no autumn.

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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.

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Above us floated products of all kinds, heaped up among these brownish plants; trunks of trees torn from the Andes or the Rocky Mountains, and floated by the Amazon or the Mississippi; numerous wrecks, remains of keels, or ships' bottoms, side-planks stove in, and so weighted with shells and barnacles that they could not again rise to the surface.

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Their Andes, likewise, or mountains, are far higher than those with us; whereby it seems, that the remnants of generation of men, were in such a particular deluge saved.

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Let us go together over the ground of your last wonderful expedition over the Andes. You will find that I am not altogether ignorant of your profession, or of those very interesting geological problems which you spoke of in connection with that marvellous railway scheme.

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But the fool's neighbor, who is a step higher on the Andes of the mind, whose head(that is to say, his more exalted thought) is too far above the fool to be seen or understood, but whose feet (by which I mean his everyday actions) are sufficiently near to be discerned, and by means of which that superiority is ascertained, which but for them would never have been discovered-this neighbor asserts that Shakespeare is a great poet--the fool believes him, and it is henceforward his opinion.

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Geography was taught chiefly by making boys draw maps, and this was a favourite occupation, especially when the country dealt with was mountainous: it was possible to waste a great deal of time in drawing the Andes or the Apennines.

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I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.

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He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa.

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A number had gone to Panama, and four were talking of going to Ecuador to work in the shops of the railroad that ran over the Andes to Quito.

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