Precordillera
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Precordillera is a Spanish
geographical term for hills and mountains lying before a greater range. The term is derived from cordillera meaning mountain range and applied usually to the Andes
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Some places usually called Precordillera are:
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
geographical term for hills and mountains lying before a greater range. The term is derived from cordillera meaning mountain range and applied usually to the Andes
Andes
The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...
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Some places usually called Precordillera are:
- Mountains between Sierras de Córdoba and the main chain of the Andes in Argentina.
- Used all over Chile from north to south as a morphological unit lying just between the Andes and the Intermediate Depression.