cordillera

• “The road, challenged enough in the desolation of the desert tries to stick to the longitudinal valleys that run beneath the cordillera.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kook

• “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.”

  Patía Valley dry forests

• “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.”

  Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena

• “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.”

  Patía Valley dry forests

• “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.”

  Newsweek: Brain Drain

• “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

• “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.”

  Full Text Circular: About the Geologic Map in the National Atlas of the United States of America « ResourceShelf

• “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.”

  Chocó-Darién moist forests

• “The southern boundary edges the boreal cordillera and the eastern end reaches the taiga plains.”

  Nahanni National Park Reserve, Canada

• “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.”

  Newsweek: Children Of The Ice

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