Cordillera Oriental
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Boyacá sits on a branch of the Andes known as the Cordillera Oriental.
From New York Times
Few people were offering rides on Route 55, a two-lane highway that weaves into the eastern mountain range known as the Cordillera Oriental.
From New York Times
Dr Davies and his compadres were in Colombia, in the Serranía de las Quinchas, an area of cloud- and rain-forest in the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental that was, until a peace deal signed in 2016, part of the sphere of influence of the FARC, a group of rebels fighting to overthrow the government.
From Economist
The eastern rampart of this great plateau is formed by the Cordillera Oriental, which extends north-west into Peru under the name of Carabaya, and south to the frontier in broken ranges, one of which trends south-east in the vicinity of Sucr�.
From Project Gutenberg
Between these and the Cordillera Oriental is an apparently confused mass of broken, intersecting ranges, which on closer examination are found to conform more or less closely to the two outside ranges.
From Project Gutenberg
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