Cordillera
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A cordillera is a chain or network of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas. The term is borrowed from Spanish, where the word comes from cordilla, a diminutive of cuerda.
A labeled image of the mountains of the Cordillera del Paine, in Chile
Ancohuma and Illampu, part of the Cordillera Real subrange of the larger Andes in Bolivia
Andes
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The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is 8,900 k
Cordillera
…is most commonly used in physical geography and is particularly applied to the various large mountain systems of the American Cordillera, such as the Andes of South America, and less frequently to other mountain ranges in the "ridge" that rims the Pacific Ocean. In Colombia and Venezuela, cordilleras are…
Winter aerial view of the Andes mountain range between Mendoza (Argentina) and Santiago (Chile)
Aconcagua, in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and in the world outside the Himalayan system.
Aerial view of Valle Carbajal in the Tierra del Fuego. The Andes range is about 200 km (124 mi) wide throughout its length, except in the Bolivian flexure where it is about 640 kilometres (398 mi) wide.
"Cono de Arita" in the Puna de Atacama, Salta (Argentina)