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Encyclopedia > Andes (disambiguation)

Andes may refer to:

  • Andes, the mountain range.
  • architecture with non-sequential dynamic execution scheduling (ANDES)
  • Andes Chocolate Mint (ANDES).

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Andes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1243 words)
It was during the Cretaceous Period that the Andes began to take their present form, by the uplifting, faulting and folding of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks of the ancient cratons to the east.
The northern Andes are typically rainy and warm, with an average temperature of 18 °C in Colombia.
Tropical rainforests and rainforests encircle the northern Andes.
Andes - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (3664 words)
Of the two principal chains the eastern is generally called Los Andes, and the western La Cordillera, in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where the eastern is likewise known as Cordillera Real de los Andes, while to the south of parallel 23°S in Chile and Argentina, the western is called Cordillera de los Andes.
The latter, as regards its main chain, is on the northern coast of the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the deep depression of Lake Fagnano and of Admiralty Sound.
The Andes continue to be to the west an enormous rugged mass of ice and snow of an average height of 2700 m (9000 ft), sending glaciers to all the eastern fjords.
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