Write any 3 characteristic features of the Western Mountains in South America
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Andes Mountains, also called the Andes, Spanish Cordillera de los Andes or Los Andes, mountain system of South America and one of the great natural features of the Earth.
Southern and Central Andes and Patagonia
Southern and Central Andes and Patagonia
The Southern and Central Andes
Central and Northern Andes and the Amazon River basin and drainage network
Central and Northern Andes and the Amazon River basin and drainage network
The Central and Northern Andes and the Amazon River basin and drainage network.
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Northern Andes and the Orinoco River basin
Northern Andes and the Orinoco River basin
The Northern Andes and the Orinoco River basin and its drainage network.
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The Andes consist of a vast series of extremely high plateaus surmounted by even higher peaks that form an unbroken rampart over a distance of some 5,500 miles (8,900 kilometres)—from the southern tip of South America to the continent’s northernmost coast on the Caribbean. They separate a narrow western coastal area from the rest of the continent, affecting deeply the conditions of life within the ranges themselves and in surrounding areas. The Andes contain the highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere. The highest of them is Mount Aconcagua (22,831 feet [6,959 metres]) on the border of Argentina and Chile (see Researcher’s Note: Height of Mount Aconcagua).
Behold Andean condors soaring among the Andes' mountaintops that stretch the entire length of South America
Behold Andean condors soaring among the Andes' mountaintops that stretch the entire length of South America
A brief introduction to the Andes Mountains and the Andean condor.
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The Andes are not a single line of formidable peaks but rather a succession of parallel and transverse mountain ranges, or cordilleras, and of intervening plateaus and depressions. Distinct eastern and western ranges—respectively named the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental—are characteristic of most of the system. The directional trend of both the cordilleras generally is north-south, but in several places the Cordillera Oriental bulges eastward to form either isolated peninsula-like ranges or such high intermontane plateau regions as the Altiplano (Spanish: “High Plateau”), occupying adjoining parts of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru.
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1. the Western mountains are also called andes mountains.
2. the andes mountains have three parallel ranges
3. they are the second- highest mountains after the himalayas.