Cordillera meaning

kôr'dl-yâr'ə, kôr-dĭl'ər-ə
A mountain range or a series of parallel mountain ranges that are usually the principal mountain system of a continent.
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A long and wide chain of mountains, especially the main mountain range of a large landmass. Cordilleras can include the valleys, basins, rivers, lakes, plains, and plateaus between parallel chains of a single mountain system, or they can consist solely of a string of connected mountain peaks.
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An extensive, continent-wide chain of mountains, especially one in the Americas.
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A region of Canada, similar to the Appalachian, but with mostly new mountain ranges.
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An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent.
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Origin of cordillera

  • Spanish from cordilla diminutive of cuerda cord from Latin chorda cord
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Spanish, from Old Spanish cordilla, cordiella, diminutive of cuerda (“a rope, string”). See cord.
    From Wiktionary

Cordillera Sentence Examples

  • Its situation near the high cordillera gives it a cold, changeable climate.

  • The Lower Tertiary consists largely of reddish sandstones resting upon the old rocks of the Cordillera and of the Sierras.

  • long, which cuts a way through the Cordillera, and enters the Pacific at Istapa, after forming at San Pedro a fine waterfall more than 200 ft.

  • The coast, extending from the base of the Western or Maritime Cordillera to the Pacific Ocean, consists of a sandy desert crossed at intervals by rivers flowing through narrow, fertile valleys.

  • from the Gulf of Guayaquil to the borders of the Morrope Valley, and is traversed by three rivers - the Tumbes, Chira and Piura, the two former receiving their waters from the inner Cordillera and breaking through the outer range.

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