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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A discontinuous series of mountain ranges in the Andes lying parallel to the western coast of South America and extending from western Bolivia to northern Colombia. Its highest elevation is Huascarán, 6,746 m (22,133 ft), in western Peru.
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Mining activities in the Cordillera Occidental pollute the water bodies and poorly drained areas.
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Sonso and Rio Claro; on the west, the same diocese, along the mountain chain of the Cordillera Occidental; on the south, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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