cordillera
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- noun
- /kɔrˈdɪl.jə.rə/
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cordillera
- Sun hung out over the whiteness, the spectral cordillera shuttering down the roads.
- the Andean cordillera
Examples
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The violet cordillera of the divide hovered straight ahead, and off to their right was an unbridgeable distance.
Fiction book (1999) -
As mentioned, Ecuador took advantage of the technical problem of the 1949 demarcation in order to maintain in suspense the closing of its border on the slope of the cordillera in question.
Academic text (1992) -
People have always looked up from the jungle toward the cordillera.
Fiction book (1996) -
Air exploration revealed some 750,000 people living in the central cordillera, ranging above the malaria line and below the frost line.
Academic text (1994) -
In the area of trade, besides the expanded market, bases for binational enterprises were set up, particularly in the region of the cordillera and in the mining sector.
Academic text (1991) -
These beads come from all over the world and were traded into cordilleras from as far as Venice and Russia, in Europe and China and India and Asia.
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In the valleys of these cordilleras, mighty rivers begin: the Huallaga and Ucayali, both entering the Amazon, mightiest of all.
Fiction book (1991) -
The parroquia of Pangor encompasses a stretch of land on the outer slopes of the western cordillera, from the peaks more than four thousand meters high down to about halfway to the coastal plain.
Academic text (2001) -
In the waning light, the land around him looked suddenly green, the cane plantation lush and bountiful, the serrated cordillera rich with promise and hitherto unseen dimensions and convolutions.
Fiction book (1999) -
From the peak of the mountain, we could see the entire cordillera stretching into the distance.
Synonyms
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A connected line of hills or mountains
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1.8
A long line of connected mountains that forms a high area
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7.0
A line of connected hills or mountains
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A long line of high land with many connected peaks
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A line of connected mountains or hills
A mountain range with jagged, rocky peaks
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cordillera comes from Spanish words that mean 'cord' or 'rope', and you can see the same idea in the English word cord. Think of a long rope laid across the land — a cordillera is a long 'rope' of connected mountain ranges, which is why we use it for a chain of mountains.