Cordilleras

Mountains they call the Cordilleras, and are in the Country of Chili.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

These two ranges of mountain are called the Cordilleras, or the Andes: both terms being used indiscriminately.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Andes, on those knots or transverse ridges, because, in the continuation of the Andes called the Cordilleras of the shore of Venezuela, we shall find the same transverse dykes, and the same phenomena.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

I dwell on this articulated form of the Andes, on those knots or transverse ridges, because, in the continuation of the Andes called the Cordilleras of the shore of Venezuela, we shall find the same transverse dykes, and the same phenomena.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Did not Pizarro lead three hundred and fifty Spanish cavaliers and four thousand Indians into the far Cordilleras in search of treasure?

The Madness of John Harned 2010

During the longest dry spell, at the beginning of the year, the strong winds from the Caribbean Sea sweeps all the clouds towards the northern extreme of the Andean Central and Western Cordilleras, which form a series of Serranías called Abibe, San Jerónimo, Ayapel, and de San Lucas.

Magdalena-Urabá moist forests 2008

Although the Cordillera Oriental of Columbia is the least species-rich of the three Cordilleras in Columbia in terms of the frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus, new material collected by pesons from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in the last few years gives us evidence that this Cordillera harvours more Eleutherodactylus species than previously recognized.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

The largest area of unaltered wild land in the country's eastern Cordilleras is known as Sangay National Park.

Ecuador 2009

The Flora of the Fuego-Patagonian Cordilleras: its origins and affinities.

Magellanic subpolar forests 2008

Sangay National Park (1° 27'-2° 15'S, 78° 04'-78° 31'W) is located in the central Andes is the largest area of unaltered wild land in the country's eastern Cordilleras.

Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008