Cordillera Central
Americannoun
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a mountain range in Colombia: part of the Andes. Highest peak, Huila, 18,700 feet (5,700 meters).
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a mountain range in the Dominican Republic. Highest peak, Pico Duarte, 10,414 feet (3,174 meters).
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a mountain range in Peru: part of the Andes.
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a mountain range in Luzon, Philippines. Highest peak, Mt. Pulog, 9,606 feet (2,928 meters).
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a mountain range in central Puerto Rico. Highest peak, Cerro de Punta, 4,389 feet (1,338 meters).
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With the mountains of the Cordillera Central as a backdrop, the springs were lovely enough by day but even more magical at night.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2018
The Kalinga, in the inaccessible mountains known as the Cordillera Central, fiercely guarded their villages against outsiders and held on to their customs.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2017
The volcanic mountain range, Cordillera Central, surrounds the valley where San Jose, Costa Rica's capital, resides.
From US News ● Oct. 12, 2016
Filandia is a town set high in the mountain slopes of the Cordillera Central range in Colombia.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2011
Destructive earthquake, accompanied by great landslides in the mountains and eruptions of water and mud in the region of northern Luzon which comprises the Provinces of the Ilocos, of Cagayan, and the Cordillera Central.
From Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909 by Miguel Saderra Masó
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