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ANDES (12A: South American mountain range) The ANDES mountain range runs along the western edge of South America, and is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
The Bolivian Orocline is a seaward-concave bending in the coast of South America and the Andes Mountains at about 18° S. [6] [7] At this point, the orientation of the Andes turns from northwest in Peru to south in Chile and Argentina. [7]
South America's 20 genera of nonhuman primates compares with 6 in Central America, 15 in Madagascar, 23 in Africa and 19 in Asia. All South American monkeys are believed to be descended from ancestors that rafted over from Africa about 25 million years ago in a single dispersal event. Suborder: Haplorrhini. Infraorder: Simiiformes
One of the defining features of the park is the presence of tepuis (the Native American word for table-top mountains), sheer-sided sandstone plateaux that dominate the forest. Over 75,000 paintings, spanning more than 20,000 years to the present, are to be seen on the walls of the 60 rock shelters around the bases of the tepuis.
The American Cordillera (/ ˌ k ɔːr d əl ˈ j ɛ r ə / KOR-dəl-YERR-ə) is a chain of mountain ranges (cordilleras), consisting of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of the Americas. [2] Aconcagua is the highest peak of the chain.
Category: Mountains of South America by country. ... Mountains and hills of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1 C, 12 P) Mountains of Suriname (12 P) U.
South America is a continent [g] ... the Amazon River; the longest mountain range, the Andes (whose highest mountain is Aconcagua at 6,962 m or 22,841 ft); ...
Mountains of South America that are located in two or more states. Pages in category "International mountains of South America" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total.