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La cordillera Americana, en inglés americano American Cordillera, es una extensa cadena montañosa que consiste en una casi continua secuencia de cordilleras y sierras, a lo largo de todo el oeste del continente americano, llegando hasta la Antártida.
- Cordillera Centroamericana
La cordillera centroamericana es una cadena montañosa de...
- Cordillera Centroamericana
The American Cordillera (/ ˌ k ɔːr d əl ˈ j ɛ r ə / KOR-dəl-YERR-ə) is a chain of mountain ranges (cordilleras) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of the Americas. Aconcagua is the highest peak of the chain.
- United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela
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- 6,961 m (22,838 ft)
- Major Features
- Pacific Coast Belt
- Nevadan Belt
- Laramide Belt
- Intermontane Areas Seaward from The Nevadan Belt
- Intermontane Areas Inland from The Nevadan Belt
- See Also
The North American Cordillera extends from the U.S. state of Alaska to the southern border of Mexico, and includes some of the highest peaks on the continent. Its mountain ranges generally run north to south along three main belts: the Pacific Coast Ranges in the west, the Nevadan belt in the middle (including the Sierra Nevada), and the Laramide b...
The Pacific Coast Ranges, comprising the Pacific Coast Belt, parallel the North American Pacific Coast, and comprise several mountain systems. Along the British Columbia and Alaska coast, the mountains intermix with the sea in a complex maze of fjords, with thousands of islands. Off the Southern California coast the Channel Islands archipelago of t...
The Nevadan belt is located between the Pacific coast belt and the Laramide belt. Nevadameans "snow-covered" in Spanish.
The Laramide belt is on the side of the North American Cordillera most distant from the Pacific Coast Ranges. It is named for the Laramie Mountains of eastern Wyoming (in turn named for Jacques La Ramee, a trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in 1820 and was never heard from again).
The Nevadan belt runs down the middle of the North American Cordillera. Therefore, the intermontane areas can be divided up into the areas east of the Nevadan belt, and those west of the Nevadan belt.
Canadian portion
The Rocky Mountain Trench is a large valley that extends approximately 1,600 km (990 mi) from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the Liard River, just south of the British Columbia–Yukon border near Watson Lake, Yukon. The trench bottom is 3 to 16 km (2 to 10 miles) wide and ranges from 600 to 900 m (2,000 to 3,000 ft) above sea level. The general orientation of the Trench is almost uniformly pointing north. Some of its topography has been carved into glacial valleys, but it is primarily a byproduct...
Portion in contiguous U.S.
The Columbia Plateau is a geologic and geographic region that lies across parts of the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. It is a wide flood basalt plateau between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, cut through by the Columbia River. In one of various usages, the term "Columbia Basin" refers to more or less the same area as the Columbia Plateau. The Basin and Range province covers most of the state of Nevada and parts of the states of Arizona, California, Idaho, New Mexico,...
Mexican portion
The Mexican Plateau is one of six distinct physiographic sections of the Basin and Range Province, which in turn is part of the Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. It is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico. Averaging 1,825 m (5,988 ft) above sea level, it extends from the United States border in the north to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in the south, and is bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Orientalto the west a...
- United States, Canada and Mexico
- 6,400 km (4,000 mi)
- 6,168 m (20,236 ft)
- Denali
La Cordillera norteamericana incluye varias cordilleras subordinadas, valles intermontanos y altiplanos en el oeste de América del norte con los Grandes Llanuras siendo el límite oriental en una considerable parte de su trayecto de norte a sur. La Cordillera norteamericana pasa por 3 países: Canadá, México y Estados Unidos incluyendo Alaska.
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18 de oct. de 2022 · la cordillera americana es el sistema montaÑoso mÁs largo del mundo. También es la columna vertebral del arco volcánico que forma la mitad oriental del Anillo de Fuego del Pacífico. Mapa de la Cordillera Americana, compuesta por los Andes, Sierra Madre, Montañas Rocosas y Cordillera Centroamericana.
