Everything about The American Cordillera totally explained
The
American cordillera consists of an essentially continuous sequence of
mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of
North America,
Central America and
South America. From north to south, this sequence of overlapping and parallel ranges begins with the
Alaska Range and the
Brooks Range in
Alaska and run through the
Yukon into
British Columbia. The main belt of the
Rocky Mountains along with the parallel
Coast Ranges of mountains and islands continue through British Columbia and
Vancouver Island. In the
United States, the Cordillera branches to include the Rockies, the
Sierra Nevada, and the
Cascades and Coast ranges of
Washington,
Oregon, and
California. In
Mexico, the Cordillera continues through the
Sierra Madre Occidental and
Sierra Madre Oriental, as well as the backbone mountains of the
Baja California peninsula.
The Cordillera from Mexico northwards is also called the Western Cordillera in the United States and the Pacific Cordillera in Canada.
The Cordillera continues on through the mountain ranges of
Central America in
Guatemala,
Honduras,
Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, and
Panama, and becomes the
Andes Mountains of
South America. The Andes with their parallel chains and the island chains off the coast of
Chile continue through
Colombia,
Ecuador,
Peru,
Bolivia,
Argentina, and
Chile to the very tip of South America at
Tierra del Fuego. In addition, the range can possibly be followed through the arcuate
South Georgia Ridge across the Southern Ocean to the mountains of
Graham Land on the
Antarctic Peninsula.
The Cordillera are the eastern half of the
Pacific Ring of Fire, which continues around the
Pacific Ocean via
Kamchatka and
Japan to
Indonesia and
Polynesia.
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