cordillera

Example Sentences

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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

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

The cascade is one of thousands in the Condor cordillera, a rolling buffer between the cliffs of the eastern Andes and the continental flatness of the Amazon basin.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Finally we come over a last rib of the cordillera and drop into the white.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011

With a mixture of sadness and relief, Severo decided that his brother-in-law and his machine must have fallen into some hidden crevice of the cordillera, where they would never be found.

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