Cordillera
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A cordillera is an extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent or large island. It comes from the Spanish word cordilla, which is a diminutive of cuerda, or "cord".
[edit] Notable cordilleras
- Arctic Cordillera, the mountain ranges forming the northeastern edge of North America
- American cordillera, the mountain ranges forming the western backbone of North America and South America
- Annamese Cordillera, Laos and eastern Vietnam
- Baetic Cordillera, Spain
- Central Cordillera, New Guinea
- Cordillera Central, several mountain ranges
- Cordillera Occidental, Andes, Colombia and Ecuador
- Cordillera Occidental, Peru
- Cordillera Oriental, several mountain ranges
- Pacific Cordillera, an alternate name for the Pacific Coast Range in North America
- Mexican Cordillera, consisting of the Juarez Segment, the Huayacocotla Segment, the Victoria Segment, and the Nuevoleones Cordillera
- Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), encompassing the Cordillera Central mountains of the Philippines
- Cordillera de los Andes, South America
- Cordillera de la Costa, Chile
- Cordillera de la Costa, Venezuela
- Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela
Other cordilleras:
- Cordillera, Colorado, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Cordillera, a fictional South American country in the novel High Citadel by Desmond Bagley
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