cordillera

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• The Cordillera del Condor Peace Park in Ecuador and Peru shows that even nations with long histories of conflict can forge joint conservation efforts.

  Academic text (2004)

• Two additional colonies were established within the Cordillera Central, one near the community of Jarabacoa, the other on the southern outskirts of Constanza.

  Academic text (2000)

• The Canadian Rockies are the easternmost part of the Canadian Cordillera, the collective name for the mountains of Western Canada.

  Blog text (26)

• A colonial town tucked in the foothills that rise into the Cordillera Real east of the altiplano.

  Academic text (2002)

• There are three main mining areas for Dominican amber: La Cordillera Septentrional in the north, and Byaguana and Sabana in the east.

  Academic text (2006)

• Periods of advance in Garibaldi Park are broadly synchronous with advances elsewhere in the Canadian Cordillera, suggesting a common climatic cause.

  Blog text (9)

• The mission territory represented in the painting corresponds to the area around the mountain range of Isabella (Cordillera Isabella) in present-day northern central Nicaragua.

  Academic text (2012)

• The northern or lower-valley portion is more humid than the western and southern or upper-valley areas because of the contraction of the easterly Cordillera Paucartambo.

  Academic text (1991)

• Aymara culture and language have survived intact for centuries on Isla de Sol (Sun Island), as if the glacial breath of the Cordillera Real has frozen it in time.

  Academic text (2004)

• The Andes is a famous cordillera that runs along the western edge of South America.

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