It ranged along the cordillera from northern New Mexico to the Canadian border. |
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I still wanted to look at the Cordillera Occidental, the western cordillera, the other main chain of the Andes. |
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At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Andean condor's silhouette was a common sight along the entire Andes cordillera. |
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Greater complexity is not justified since there are large probable errors in elevation and terrain corrections in the cordillera. |
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To the east the cordillera was scorched and spent, rubbled by decades of desperate agriculture. |
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The region is composed of two distinct physiographic areas the high mountain cordillera to the west and the low interior plains to the east. |
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We could follow the entire sweep of the river, from the lower meanders upwards to the source of the tiny stream high in the glaciated peaks of the cordillera. |
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In the western part, the Andean cordillera extends from north to south. |
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Numbers of natives, especially Tarahumara, moved into the deep recesses of the western cordillera of the Sierra Madre to escape the Spanish demands for labor. |
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Two of them, the Rocky Mountains and Coastal Mountains, are both found in the west, while the arctic cordillera runs along the northeastern edge of the country. |
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The rivers in Chile run very fast, rushing down to the sea from a cordillera that rises to a height of 3,000 meters, at a speed of 150 kilometers an hour, which flushes polluting agents out into the ocean. |
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Then, in 1499, the first major discovery of gold was made in the cordillera central, which led to a mining boom. |
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Nighttime is even worse on the cordillera, or mountain range. |
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Incessant rains caused the Ucayali and Amazon to burst their banks, flooding huge swathes of Loreto department in the North-East which are cut off from the rest of the country by the Andes cordillera. |
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Straight Walls: The most common form of straight-walled valleys are V-shaped valleys associated with upper reaches of streams in the western cordillera and certain parts of the Appalachian Mountains of the Atlantic Provinces. |
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The Peninsular ranges of the California cordillera run down the geographic center of the state. |
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The geology of Alaska is typical of that of the cordillera, while the major islands of Hawaii consist of Neogene volcanics erupted over a hot spot. |
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Up to 2000 m of alluvial fan and fan delta deposits of early Cretaceous age are preserved in the Coastal Cordillera. |
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The Western Cordillera is part of a mountain chain that stretches from Chile in South America to Alaska. |
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Occasional flashes of lightning danced over the distant peaks of the Cordillera Real. |
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In the west, the Western Cordillera consists of a series of mountain chains and valleys or high plateaus. |
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In the northern Cordillera lower Paleozoic alkalic and potassic mafic magmatism is linked with rifting of the Selwyn Basin. |
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You'll kayak through a maze of fjords and tidal channels and through the ice-encrusted Cordillera Darwin and the most active tidewater glaciers in the world. |
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The orographie impact of the Andean Cordillera can be seen clearly, enhancing rainfall on the east slope and forming a rain shadow on the west slope. |
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Ilocanos are residents of Northern Luzon in the Philippines which comprises regions 1, 2 and 3 and the Cordillera Autonomous Region. |
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Some 34 such dams have been built in the Cordillera Blanca to contain proglacial lakes. |
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The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that runs the length of the west coast. |
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North of the Appalachians, the Arctic Cordillera runs along the eastern coast of Canada. |
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The lowest of the ranges is the Cordillera Oriental, in the eastern part of the country. |
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The Massif du Nord is an extension of the Cordillera Central in the Dominican Republic. |
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Located in between the Sierra Madre and the Cordillera Central mountain ranges is the large Cagayan Valley. |
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The Cordillera Darwin in the southwestern part of the main island contains many glaciers that reach the ocean. |
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The mountain range of the divide is called the Cordillera de Talamanca near the Costa Rican border. |
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As a whole, the range between Costa Rica and the canal is generally referred to by geographers as the Cordillera Central. |
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Temperatures are markedly cooler in the higher parts of the mountain ranges, and frosts occur in the Cordillera de Talamanca in western Panama. |
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The indigenous people of Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines are the Igorot people. |
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More pronounced effects are observed, however, in particular valley regions within the Cordillera, in the direct lee of specific mountain ranges. |
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To the west of these, a similar longitudinal depression extends all along the foot of the snowy Andean Cordillera. |
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The mountains of the Cordillera Central are the main cause of the variations in the temperature and rainfall that occur over very short distances. |
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These mountains form a link between the Cordillera Central and the Sierra Madre mountain ranges, separating the Cagayan Valley from the Central Luzon plains. |
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Ritacuba blanco the highest peak of Cordillera Oriental, Colombia. |
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Of the many mountain ranges within Central America, the longest are the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, the Cordillera Isabelia and the Cordillera de Talamanca. |
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The North American Cordillera is an accretionary orogen which grew by the progressive addition of allochthonous terranes along this margin from the Late Palaeozoic. |
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These species also show overpredictions in the lowlands of the Pacific and Caribbean regions, with dispersal potential blocked by the Oriental Cordillera. |
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The dissimilarity continues northeastward along the western edge of the Andes Cordillera along South America to Mexico, returning then to the islands off California. |
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