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The North American Cordillera extends from the U.S. state of Alaska to the southern border of Mexico, and includes some of the highest peaks on the continent. [5] Its mountain ranges generally run north-to-south along three main belts: the Pacific Coast Ranges in the west, the Nevadan belt in the middle (including the Sierra Nevada ), and the ...
The North American Cordillera extends up and down the coast of North America and roughly from the Great Plains westward to the Pacific Ocean, narrowing somewhat from north to south. It includes the Cascades , Sierra Nevada , and Basin and Range province ; the Rocky Mountains are sometimes excluded from the cordillera proper, in spite of their ...
The Cascade Range is a part of the American Cordillera, a nearly continuous chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that form the western "backbone" of North, Central, and South America. The Cascades are home to many national parks and protected areas, including North Cascades National Park , Mount Rainier National Park , Crater Lake National ...
Alborz Cordillera, northern Iran (also written as Elburz) American Cordillera, the mountain ranges forming the western backbone of North America and South America. North American Cordillera (also called Pacific Cordillera or Western Cordillera of North America), comprising the mountain ranges of western North America Cordillera Central, Costa Rica
The mountains range from 300 km (190 mi) from the Gulf of California in the north, but begin to approach within 50 km (30 mi) of the Pacific in the south. [3] These mountains are generally considered to be part of the much larger American cordillera, the mountains extending from Alaska down to these across western North America. [4] [5]
During the Paleozoic, western North America lay underneath a shallow sea, which deposited many kilometers of limestone and dolomite. [7]In the southern Rocky Mountains, near present-day Colorado and New Mexico, the Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks were disturbed by mountain building approximately 300 Ma, during the Pennsylvanian.
American Cordillera – 13,400 km (8,300 mi) Andes – 7,000 km (4,300 mi). Northern and Southern Andes main subdivisions, along both run three vast, almost parallel chain systems of mountain ranges – Cordillera Occidental, Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental. North American Cordillera – 6,400 km (4,000 mi)
The Pacific Coast Ranges are part of the North American Cordillera (sometimes known as the Western Cordillera, or in Canada, as the Pacific Cordillera and/or the Canadian Cordillera), which includes the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia Mountains, the Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and ...