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Definition of Cordillera
1. n. A mountain ridge or chain.
Definition of Cordillera
1. Noun. An extensive, continent-wide chain of mountains, especially one in the Americas. ¹
2. Noun. A region of Canada, similar to the Appalachian, but with mostly new mountain ranges. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cordillera
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordillera
Literary usage of Cordillera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by George Brettingham Sowerby, William Lonsdale, Edward Forbes, Charles Darwin (1897)
"THE space between the cordillera and the coast of Chile is on a rude average from
... The basin-like plains at the foot of the cordillera are in several ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"The Eastern cordillera throughout the whole of the southern part of Ecuador ...
This cordillera is the more primitive aud the older; it has the more regular ..."
3. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER XV PASSAGE OF THE cordillera Valparaiso—Portillo Pass—Sagacity of
Mules—Mountain-torrents— Mines, how discovered—Proofs of the gradual Elevation of ..."
4. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"ILL —Of the Effects produced by the great Snow of the cordillera. ... which are
about the middle of May, the cordillera begins to be covered with mow, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Pestera cordillera, or cordillera de Choco, is the least remarkable of the three,
and has been worn down in many places into what are comparatively mere ..."
6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XV PASSAGE OF THE cordillera Valparaiso—Portillo Pass—Sagacity of
Mules—Mountain-torrents— Mines, how discovered—Proofs of the gradual Elevation of ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"NOTES ON A MAP OF PART OF THE cordillera REAL OF BOLIVIA. most, ... THE part of
the cordillera Real contained in this map includes the highest portion of ..."
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