Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A continuous ridge or range of mountains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A mountain ridge or chain.
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- noun An extensive,
continent -wide chain ofmountains , especially one in theAmericas . - noun A region of
Canada , similar to theAppalachian , but with mostly newmountain ranges .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The road, challenged enough in the desolation of the desert tries to stick to the longitudinal valleys that run beneath the cordillera.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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The Patía Valley is a dry pocket surrounded by the cloud forests of the Central and Western cordilleras, and it is dissected by the Patía river, which flows from the Central massif westwards and breaks the Western cordillera to drain into the Pacific ocean.
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The upper course of the Patía crosses mountain and cloud forests; then, in its middle course, forms the Patía dry valley, and after crossing the Western cordillera, drains into the Pacific after receiving much water from the Chocó jungles of the Pacific region of Colombia.
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A branch of the hotspot spreads east around the northern extent of the Colombian western and central cordillera, through the dry forests along the Caribbean coast as far as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and south into the Cauca and Magdalena valleys.
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Within Colombia, linework was derived by combining all Pacific "heterogeneous dense forests", "piedmont cordillera forests", "hydrophilic (riparian) forest", and "escarpment cordillera forests" of the Chocó region.
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Refugees from totalitarianism and religious intolerance in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe flocked to this country nestled between the Caribbean and the Andean cordillera and helped forge one of the most vibrant societies in the New World.
Brain Drain 2009
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The Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena biodiversity hotspot extends through the Chocó region of western Colombia and spreads east around the northern extent of the Colombian western and central cordillera, through the dry forests along the Caribbean coast as far as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and south into the Cauca and Magdalena valleys.
Colombia 2009
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However, it does show, in a general way, the thick alluvial deposits along the lower Mississippi River and on the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, and in the deep basins of the western cordillera.
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The southern boundary edges the boreal cordillera and the eastern end reaches the taiga plains.
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THE SNOWCAPPED VOLCANIC PEAK the Andean cordillera looms majestic and forbidding above the Peruvian town of Cabanaconde, and for 500 years its summit has been wreathed in pellucid ice as high as a man's thigh.
Children Of The Ice 2008
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