Cordillera Oriental
Americannoun
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Boyacá sits on a branch of the Andes known as the Cordillera Oriental.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2021
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 • Feb. 20, 2019
To the eastern range of mountains they gave the name of Cordillera Oriental.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
West of the Cordillera Oriental, where special conditions prevail, a great desert plateau stretches entirely across one corner of the republic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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