Cordillera Definition

kôrdl-yârə, kôr-dĭlər-ə
noun
A mountain range or a series of parallel mountain ranges that are usually the principal mountain system of a continent.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cordillera

Noun

Singular:
cordillera
Plural:
Cordilleras

Origin of Cordillera

  • Spanish, from Old Spanish cordilla, cordiella, diminutive of cuerda (“a rope, string”). See cord.

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish from cordilla diminutive of cuerda cord from Latin chorda cord

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cordillera Sentence Examples

  • Its situation near the high cordillera gives it a cold, changeable climate.

  • The Lower Tertiary consists largely of reddish sandstones resting upon the old rocks of the Cordillera and of the Sierras.

  • The coast, extending from the base of the Western or Maritime Cordillera to the Pacific Ocean, consists of a sandy desert crossed at intervals by rivers flowing through narrow, fertile valleys.

  • Paz Soldan and other Peruvian geographers give the name of Andes, par excellence, to the Eastern Cordillera.

  • In the mountains of British Columbia are the bighorn or Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Mountain goat, while the saddleback and white mountain sheep have recently been discovered in the northern Cordillera.

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