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Cordillera Central

the name applied to several mountain ranges in the Andes, in South America.

The Cordillera Central in northern Peru is situated between the valleys of the Maran̄on and Huallaga rivers and has elevations of up to 4,700 m. The Cordillera Central in Bolivia is located to the east of Lago de Poopó and is sometimes called the Eastern Cordillera. These two ranges are tectonically linked by other ranges of the Andes, including the Cordillera Vilcabamba, the Cordillera de Vilcanota, and the Cordillera Real.

The Cordillera Central in Colombia is situated between the Magdalena and Cauca rivers. The range, which has elevations of up to 5,750 m, has exhibited volcanic activity in ancient and modern times.

Cordillera Central

a system of echelon-like mountain ranges of medium elevation on the Meseta, in Spain and Portugal. The system includes such ranges as the Sierra de Gredos and the Sierra de Guadarrama. The Cordillera Central is approximately 400 km long and has elevations of up to 2,592 m (Mount Almanzor). The mountains are composed primarily of granites and gneisses. The divides have gentle slopes, but the flanks are steep and strongly dissected. Up to 1,500 m there are forests of pine, oak, and chestnut; at higher elevations there are meadows and shrub thickets.

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No references found	At 5,364 meters (17,701 feet), Huila is among the highest peaks in the Andean Central Cordillera, in a region that is home to mainly indigenous communities. At least 10 killed in Colombia volcano eruption by AFP / AFP Global Edition During the course of our fieldwork we visited more than 60 of Puerto Rico's 76 municipios, and our collection ranged from the coastal lowlands to the central Cordillera Mountains. Contribution to the Pteridophyte Flora of Puerto Rico by Shaw, S.W. / American Fern Journal Stuart pole was just one of six impossible things before breakfast, along with news of exotic, Asian faunas near Cache Creek in the BC interior; Franciscan-type blueschist belts embedded deep in the central Cordillera near Fort St. Paleogeography of the North American Cordillera: Evidence For and ... by Nelson, JoAnne / Geoscience Canada	central breaker Central Broadcasting central canal Central Chernozem Economic Region Central Chernozem Preserve Central Chernozem Zone, Institute of Agriculture of the Central Chess Club of the USSR Central Children's Theater central chimney Central City Opera Festival Central Commission for Famine Relief Central Commission for Post-Famine Action Central Committee Bureau Abroad CCBA Central Committee for Peasant Affairs Central Committee of Soviet Prisoners in France Central Committee of the Army in the Field and the Fleet Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet Central Committee of the Caspian Naval Flotilla Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee of the Komsomol Central Committee of the National Guard central condensation central conic central control Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party Bolshevik Central Cordillera Central Council of the Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization Central Danubian Plain central deafness central difference central difference operator central dogma central eclipse Central Economic Mathematical Institute Central Economic Region Central European Initiative Central European Oil and Gas Basin Central European Plain Central European Race Central Executive Committee Central Executive Committee of Siberian Soviets Central Executive Committee of the Navy Central Falls central fan system Central Field central field approximation Central Force Central Forecasting Institute central gear Central Heating Central heating and cooling	Central Control Panel Central Control Point Central Control Processing System Central Control Room Central Control Room Habitability System Central Control Section Central Control Ship Central Control Station Central Control System Laboratory Central Control Systems Central Control Unit Central Controller Central Controlling and Testing Institute in Agriculture Central CONUS Control Center central convulsion central convulsion central convulsion central convulsion central convulsions central convulsions central convulsions central convulsions Central Coordinating Facility Central Coordination Disturbance Central Cord Disorder Central Cord Injury Syndrome central cord syndrome central cord syndrome central cord syndrome central cord syndrome Central Cordillera Central Core Disease Central Core Disease central core myopathy central corneal clouding central corneal optical zone Central Corneal Thickness Central Cornwall Primary Care Trust Central Corporate Credit Register Central Corporate Services Unit Central Corridor Development Task Force Central Cottage Industries Emporium Central Cotton Research Institute Central Council for British Naturism Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work Central Council for Physical Recreation Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy Central Council of Church Bell Ringers Central Council of Jews in Germany Central Council of Magistrates' Courts Committees Central Council of the Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization Central Council of the National Economy Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

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At 5,364 meters (17,701 feet), Huila is among the highest peaks in the Andean Central Cordillera, in a region that is home to mainly indigenous communities.

At least 10 killed in Colombia volcano eruption by AFP / AFP Global Edition

During the course of our fieldwork we visited more than 60 of Puerto Rico's 76 municipios, and our collection ranged from the coastal lowlands to the central Cordillera Mountains.

Contribution to the Pteridophyte Flora of Puerto Rico by Shaw, S.W. / American Fern Journal

Stuart pole was just one of six impossible things before breakfast, along with news of exotic, Asian faunas near Cache Creek in the BC interior; Franciscan-type blueschist belts embedded deep in the central Cordillera near Fort St.

Paleogeography of the North American Cordillera: Evidence For and ... by Nelson, JoAnne / Geoscience Canada

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