cordillera

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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

Rogelio was born in a village in the cordillera, and is Jal’qa himself.

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

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

Towards the west, dark clouds shroud the mountains as far as Constanza and on through the whole cordillera to the far reaches of Haiti.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez