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Definition of Cordilleras
1. cordillera [n] - See also: cordillera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordilleras
Literary usage of Cordilleras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... in the cordilleras of the Andes ; the Rivers wbich ha-ve their Sources in ...
betwixt the two cordilleras of the Andes ; and that the air is more or ..."
2. A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns by Antonio de Ulloa (1758)
"... in the cordilleras of the Andes ; the rivers which have their fources :n ...
betwixt the two cordilleras of the Andes; and that the air is more or lefs ..."
3. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain by Alexander von Humboldt (1814)
"As the Cerro del Potosi belongs from its position to the cordilleras of Peru, I
have brought together in this table, the mines situar ted on the ridge of ..."
4. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838 by Charles Wilkes (1852)
"... of Goods—Beggars—Plain of Maypo—cordilleras—St. Jago—Mint—Library ... and some
with a view of extending their journey to the cordilleras beyond. i The ..."
5. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"OUR NEW WEST—Its Extent and Importance, and Four Great Divisions—The cordilleras
of South America and their Progress Through North America—The First Great ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"penetrate the Eastern cordilleras, but from Ecuador onwards, ... Although the
Western cordilleras, t'.ie Titicaca plateau with its intersecting valleys, ..."
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