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a mountain range that decided one peak wasn't enough drama.
means A long chain or system of mountain ranges, especially the parallel ranges that form a continent's main spine, like the Andes or the western mountains of North America.
from From Spanish 'cordillera,' a string or chain of mountains, built on 'cordilla,' a diminutive of 'cuerda,' meaning cord or rope — itself descended from Latin 'chorda' (cord, gut-string), a cousin of the Greek 'khorde.' So a cordillera is literally a 'little rope' of peaks, the mountains imagined as a cord laid across the land. Spanish explorers carried the word to the Americas, where it stuck fast to the vast ranges they found there.
- meaning
- Spanish for a chain of parallel ranges
- andes
- world's longest, stretching some 7,000 kilometers
- plate fight
- born where tectonic plates collide and buckle
- backbone
- often forms a continent's literal spine
- water towers
- their snow feeds rivers for millions below
andes cordillera — mountain range spanning 7,000 km through 7 south american countries from venezuela to chile
cordillera central — mountain range in the philippines running north-south through luzon island
cordillera blanca — snow-capped mountain range in peru with 27 peaks over 6,000 meters, including huascaran