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Encyclopedia > Cordillera de la Costa

Cordillera de la Costa means "Mountains on the Coast." In South America they run from Panama to Cape Horn. Cordillera is a Spanish term meaning "little string." Cordillera has also been applied to the range of mountains running from Alaska to Nicaragua.


In English, the Cordillera de la Costa is sometimes referred to as the Maritime Andes.


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Andes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3649 words)
The Cordillera de la Costa begins near Cape Horn, which is composed principally of crystalline rocks, and its heights are inconsiderable when compared with those of the true Cordillera of the 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.
While the western range of the Cordillera is principally formed by volcanic rocks, the eastern (to the east of the range is Cerro Potosí, (4700 m (15,400 ft) Andes of Bolivia are chiefly composed of old crystalline rocks.
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