Cordilleras

[ kawr-dl-yair-uhz, -air-, kawr-dil-er-uhz; Spanish kawr-thee-ye-rahs ]

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noun

a mountain system in western South America: the Andes and its component ranges.
a mountain system in western North America, including the Sierra Nevada, Coast Range, Cascade Range, and Rocky Mountains.
the entire chain of mountain ranges parallel to the Pacific coast, extending from Cape Horn to Alaska.

Cordilleras

/ ˌkɔːdɪlˈjɛərəz; korðiˈʎeras /

the Cordilleras
the Cordilleras the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains

First recorded in 1700–10, in reference to the Andes; cordillera ( def )

Probably those cast-iron wheels were ordered with a view to steam locomotion in the Cordilleras.

It is obtained in the Cordilleras, at the distance of about twenty-eight leagues from Lima.

On the eastern declivity of the Cordilleras I found no capsicum at a greater height than 4800 feet above the level of the sea.

The journey is of sixteen or twenty days' duration, and the road lies across two of the Cordilleras.

The very interesting province of Yauyos extends from this village in an easterly direction towards the Cordilleras.

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