cordillera

• Examinamos los factores posiblemente responsables de un patrón de distribución anidado de mariposas residentes de la Cordillera Toquima, una cordillera montañosa de la Gran Cuenca del Oeste de Norteamérica. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• At the silver mines of Pasco the Andes throw off a third cordillera, and with this triple arrangement and a lower altitude, enter the republic of Ecuador. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• Llanganati is probably from llánga_, to touch: they touch the sources of nearly all the Ecuadorian rivers Footnote 88: The story is doubtless due to the fact that the eastern streams, which issue from the foot of this cordillera, are auriferous And now we have reached the perfect cone of Tunguragua, the rival of Cotopaxi in symmetry and beauty. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• Central America appears at first sight to be a continuation of the great cordillera, but really it is something quite different--a mass of volcanic material poured out in the gap where the main chain of mountains breaks down for a space. —  The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America
• The other two, that is, the prairies and the high plains, still bear the impress of the original processes of deposition and have been modified to only a slight extent by erosion A similar but greater contrast separates the mountains of eastern North America and those of the western cordillera--the fourth and last of the main physical divisions of the continent. —  The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America

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