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26 de dic. de 2022 · Here are 10 of the major mountain ranges of South America. The Andes Lake in the Andes in Huayhuach, Peru. The famed Andes Mountains run an astonishing length of nearly 9,000 kilometers and pass through seven South American nations - Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela.
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11 de may. de 2023 · The main ranges starting in the North and heading South are the Brooks and Alaska Range in Alaska, the Pacific Coastal Ranges, Cascades and Sierra Nevada, which run down the western side of the States, the Rocky Mountains, which are set a little back from the Western ranges and are the longest in North America, and the Sierra Madres ...
Hace 3 días · Andes Mountains, South American mountain system that contains the highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere. One of Earth’s great natural features, the Andes form an unbroken rampart over some 5,500 miles—from the southern tip of South America to the continent’s northernmost coast on the Caribbean.
- The Andes Mountains are a series of extremely high plateaus surmounted by even higher peaks that form an unbroken rampart over a distance of some 5...
- Some historians believe that the "Andes" in Andes Mountains comes from the Quechuan word anti (“east”). Others suggest it is derived from the Quech...
- About 250 million years ago, the crustal plates constituting Earth’s landmass were joined together into the supercontinent Pangaea. The breakup of...
- The highest point in the Andes Mountains is Mount Aconcagua, located in the Southern Andes Mountains. Although its peak is in Argentina, its wester...
- The highest altitude in the Andes Mountains at which people have resided permanently is 17,100 feet (5,212 metres; they were shepherds in southern...
Hace 4 días · Rocky Mountains, mountain range forming the cordilleran backbone of the great upland system that dominates the western North American continent. Generally, the ranges included in the Rockies stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia southward to New Mexico, a distance of some 3,000 miles (4,800 km).
The Andes (/ ˈ æ n d iː z / AN-deez), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes; Quechua: Anti) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is 8,900 km (5,530 mi) long and 200 to 700 km (124 to 435 mi ...
26 de oct. de 2021 · Also referred to as “Cordillera de los Andes” in Spanish, the Andes Mountains is the world’s longest mountain range that stretches for more than 6,999km along the western margin of the South American continent.
9 de may. de 2023 · Updated: May 9, 2023. On this page we explore the mountain ranges of South America. From the vast Andes that span seven countries and run the full length of South America, to the coastal range of the Brazilian Serra do Mar and tropical rain forest of Suriname's Wilhelminagebergte.
