cordillera

Example Sentences

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It seemed like a good idea to many of my other brothers of the cordillera too.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2019

The morning after the knock on her door, Crump trekked up the cordillera, through a soup of fog, mud, and drizzle.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The scenery would have been enough to draw me to the cordillera, with its upthrust layers of multicolored sedimentary rock set around a crater that’s encircled by rugged river canyons.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016

Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries because just off the coast the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate, pushing the towering Andes cordillera to ever-higher altitudes.

From US News • Sep. 17, 2015

His chief ambition at this point was to cross the cordillera in an unusual form of transportation, just as his Uncle Marcos had tried to do many years before.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende