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	Peakware - Peru
		The Cordillera Occidental is a cluster of volcanic peaks in extreme southwestern Peru, near the city of Arequipa.
		The Cordillera Carabaya is an isolated group of folded, uplifted mountains, with rugged rocky peaks and ridges.
		In Peru, it is the southernmost of the sub-ranges comprising the Cordillera Oriental.
	www.peakware.com /encyclopedia/ranges/peru.htm (992 words)

	AllRefer.com - Colombia - Andean Highlands \| Colombian Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cordillera Occidental in the west, the Cordillera Central in the center, and the Cordillera Oriental in the east have different characteristics.
		Geologically, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central form the western and eastern sides of a massive crystalline arch that extends from the Caribbean lowlands to the southern border of Ecuador.
		The Cordillera Occidental is separated from the Cordillera Central by the deep rift of the Cauca Valley.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/colombia/colombia42.html (809 words)

	MSN Encarta - Colombia
		The Andes comprise three principal and parallel ranges: the Cordillera Occidental in the west, the Cordillera Central, and the Cordillera Oriental in the east.
		To the east, the Cordillera Oriental rises to a height of 5,500 m (18,000 ft).
		The principal river of Colombia, the Magdalena, flows north between the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564636/index.html (973 words)

	Peakware - Bolivia
		The Altiplano is bounded on the west by the Cordillera Occidental, and on the east by the Cordillera Oriental.
		The Cordillera Oriental is the easternmost Bolivian range, stretching along the eastern edge of the Altiplano.
		In Peru, it is the southernmost of the Peruvian sub-ranges comprising the Cordillera Oriental.
	www.peakware.com /encyclopedia/ranges/bolivia.htm (440 words)

	Encyclopedia: Geography of Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cordillera Occidental is a chain of dormant volcanoes and solfataras, volcanic vents emitting sulfurous gases.
		All of the Cordillera Occidental region is sparsely populated, and the south is virtually uninhabited.
		The backbone of the cordillera is a high, rolling plain, with elevations from 4,200 to 4,400 meters, interspersed with irregularly spaced high peaks.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geography-of-Bolivia (3021 words)

	United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The branch of Cordillera has a north west direction an divides itself in the region of Paraguarí in the Altos range of mountains, that prolongs itself until Arecutacuá, and into series of branches from which its last elevations reach the city of Asunción, forming the hills of Lambaré, Ñemby and Tacumbú.
		The range of mountains of Ybyturuzú is one of the branches of the Cordillera de Caaguazú- It holds the tallest point of the country, the Cerro Tres Kandú with 842 meters, the Cerro Capi'i with 816 m., the Cerro Peró with 815 m.
		With Brazil we have the Apa river, the Estrella creek and the Cordillera del Mbaracayú.
	www.hypermedia.com.py /cepb/eng/geo.htm (1412 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Andes
		The arc consists of three main parallel ranges, known as the Cordillera Occidental (Western Cordillera), the Cordillera Central (Central Cordillera), and the Cordillera Oriental (Eastern Cordillera).
		The Cordillera Oriental divides into the Cordillera MÃ©rida, which extends along the east coast of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, and the Sierra de PerijÃ¡, which extends to the west of Lake Maracaibo along the borders of Colombia and Venezuela.
		The two main ranges of the central Andes, which are also known as the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental, enclose the Altiplano, an extensive plateau in Bolivia and southern Peru between 3,600 to 4,000 m (12,000 to 14,000 ft) above sea level.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761560223___3/Andes.html (391 words)

	Mexico - Topography and Drainage
		As is the case with the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Sierra Madre Oriental comes progressively closer to the coastline as it approaches its southern terminus, reaching to within seventy-five kilometers of the Gulf of Mexico.
		The Cordillera Neovolcánica is a belt 900 kilometers long and 130 kilometers wide, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The Cordillera Neovolcánica begins at the Río Grande de Santiago and continues south to Colima, where it turns east along the nineteenth parallel to the central portion of the state of Veracruz.
	countrystudies.us /mexico/48.htm (1002 words)

	USGS P 1386-I -- Peru - Cordilleras - Oriental
		The Cordillera Urubamba, a glacierized mountain range within the eastern cordillera, is between lat 13°08' and 13°17'S. and long 71°58' and 72°16'W. It trends in a northwesterly direction for about 30 km (fig.
		The Quelccaya ice cap is situated in the Cordillera de Vilcanota in the eastern branch (Cordillera Oriental) of the Peruvian Andes.
		The Cordillera de Carabaya is in the Cordillera Oriental between lat 14°00' and 14°22'S. and long 69°38' and 70°19'W. It extends 75 km in a northwesterly direction (fig.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1386i/peru/orient.html (857 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Cordillera Oriental montane forests (NT0118)
		The Cordillera Oriental Montane Forests are clearly distinguishable from the rest of the montane forest ecoregions of the Northern Andes because of the influence of the piedmont dry forests and the Llanos grasslands of the Orinoco basin, as well as species associations shared with the isolated Santa Marta Mountains.
		In the broadest sense, this ecoregion encompasses the forests between the lowland forests of the eastern slopes (1000m) and the continental divide (excluding páramo) of the Cordillera Oriental, from where it splits from the main Andean chain in southern Colombia, to where it terminates along the Venezuelan-Colombian border NW of Laker Maracaibo.
		Cordillera de Mérida was seperated from this ecoregion, as were all páramo habitats.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0118_full.html (1543 words)

	Dominican Republic - Natural Regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Samaná Peninsula is an eastward extension of the northern region, separated from the Cordillera Septentrional by an area of swampy lowlands.
		The Cordillera Central is 2,000 meters high near the Haitian border and reaches a height of 3,087 meters at Pico Duarte, the highest point in the country.
		The Caribbean coastal plain is 10 to 40 kilometers wide and consists of a series of limestone terraces that gradually rise to a height of 100 to 120 meters at the northern edge of the coastal plains at the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3798.html (594 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the south, a western Cordillera Occidental and a central Cordillera Central are separated by a rift valley enclosing the Cauca River.
		The Cordillera Oriental is the longest of the three cordilleras and extends for some 750 miles (1,200 km).
		To the southeast of the Cordillera Oriental lies the vast, barely populated lowland, which consists of the Llanos (Orinoquia) and Amazonia regions (together accounting for three-fifths of the country's land area) and which is drained by the Orinoco (northern half) and the Amazon rivers.
	www.fuchsias-in-focus.co.uk /colombia2.htm (2159 words)

	Cordillera Oriental of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Ari's Base Camp - Mountains
		The Peruvian Andes are divided into ranges of Cordillera Blanca in the western (or coastal) part of Peru, Cordillera Huayhuash, Cordillera Central, Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Oriental.
		Cordillera Huayhuash resembles the mountains of Cordillera Blanca, although the peaks of Huayhuash are generally lower but technically more difficult.
		Cordillera Huayhuash is also less accessible, approaches take normally at least 2-3 days from Chiquian (3400m), that is nearest convenient center of Cordillera Huayhuash.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/south_america.htm (4231 words)

	Columbia Geography
		The Caribbean lowlands consist of all of Colombia north of an imaginary line extending northeastward from the Golfo de Urabá to the Venezuelan frontier at the northern extremity of the Cordillera Oriental.
		The region is unbroken by highlands except in Meta Department, where the Macarena Sierra, an outlier of the Andes, is of interest to scientists because its vegetation and wildlife are believed to be reminiscent of those that once existed throughout the Andes.
		This zone includes the lower slopes of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central and most of the intermontane valleys.
	www.multied.com /NationbyNation/Columbia/Geo.html (1474 words)

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		Of the three ranges, the nonvolcanic Cordillera Occidental, which forms the barrier between the Cauca valley and the rain-drenched Pacific coast, is the lowest and least populated.
		The Cordillera Central is the highest of the Andean ranges of Colombia, rising to an average height of 10,000 feet (3,000 metres).
		The massive Cordillera Oriental, separating the Magdalena valley from the Llanos, is composed chiefly of folded and faulted marine sediments and older schists and gneisses.
	www.worldsurface.com /browse/static.asp?staticpageid=566 (2315 words)

	Ordovician acritarchs from northwestern Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Traditionally, the Puna, Cordillera Oriental and Sierras Subandinas have been considered as separate basins, especially because of their Cenozoic geological history, which has imprinted the present morphology.
		In this new scenario, diversified acritarch assemblages from the Cordillera Oriental correspond to the platform facies of the foreland basin.
		Ordovician acritarch investigations began in the Cordillera Oriental, and for many years they have been sparse and have not allowed the elaboration of a regional biostratigraphic scheme.
	www.unt.edu.ar /fcsnat/INSUGEO/geologia_17/19.htm (2141 words)

	Country Profile - Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cordillera Occidental is part of the Andean range that extends along the western fringe of South America.
		The structure of the Cordillera Oriental is more varied and complex, with distinctly different landscapes and habitats in the northeast, which follows a northwest to southeast direction, and the south, which follows a north to south direction.
		The northern part of the eastern lowlands and the adjacent lower slopes of the Cordillera Oriental are covered by dense evergreen forests.
	www.free-living.com /CountryProfiles/boliviaprofile.htm (1559 words)

	La Cordillera Oriental
		La Cordillera Oriental, desde el punto de vista político, esta formada casi en su totalidad por el estado Sucre, aunque también forman parte de ella, secciones de los estados Anzoátegui y Monagas.
		Los límites del macizo Oriental, están claramente definidos: al norte, con la depresión tectónica del golfo de Cariaco; al sur, con los llanos orientales, al este, con el golfo de Paria y al oeste, con el mar Caribe.
		Siendo la cordillera Oriental, una prolongación de la cordillera Central, la vegetación es similar a aquella, dependiendo de la altura con respecto al nivel del mar; desde los manglares en la costa y xerófilas en la península de Araya, hasta las selvas nubladas en las altas montañas del Tumiriquire.
	www.venezuelatuya.com /geografia/cordilleraoriental.htm (767 words)

	Colombia: Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The physical structure of the mountain region and the direction of its main ranges and valleys are a dominant factor in the distribution of the population, with orientation toward the Caribbean (rather than the Pacific) coast, where most of the country's ports are located.
		The mountain region consists of three ranges of the Andes: Cordillera Occidental, Cordillera Central, and Cordillera Oriental, all of which have a general south-north orientation.
		Another feature of the Cordillera Oriental is a number of high basins, three of which are comparatively large, resembling intermont plateaus.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/aurelia/colgeo1.htm (711 words)

	Land and Resources - Colombia - South America: covered snow, andes mountain, colombia population, amazon river, orinoco ...
		Between the cordilleras are high plateaus, a number of which are about 2,400 m (about 8,000 ft) above sea level, and fertile valleys, traversed by the principal rivers of the country.
		The principal river of Colombia, the Magdalena, flows north between the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central, across practically the entire country, emptying into the Caribbean near Barranquilla after a course of about 1,540 km (about 957 mi).
		The Cauca, also an important means of communication, flows north between the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Occidental, merging with the Magdalena about 320 km (about 200 mi) from the Caribbean.
	www.countriesquest.com /south_america/colombia/land_and_resources.htm (615 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		The timing of hydrocarbon generation relative to the closure of migration pathways and trap formation is key to characterization of the petroleum systems of the Cordillera Oriental and the prolific petroleum provinces of the Llanos and Magdalena.
		The exceptionally thick and organic rich Cretaceous source rock successions of the Cordillera Oriental had the potential to have generated vast quantities of liquid hydrocarbons.
		Only in the northeast quarter and extreme south of the Cordillera Oriental and in the deeper parts of the flanking basins was oil being generated simultaneous with trap formation.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=421197 (355 words)

	Cordillera Oriental - Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Al norte de esta cordillera, en brusco descenso, se encuentran las llanuras amazónicas hacia el sur los picos majestuosos, siempre cubiertos de nieve, se alzan en tremendo contraste con los grises y ocres de la altiplanicie.
		La cordillera de Cochabamba, separa los valles de clima templado y la zona de los yungas y llanuras amazónicas que se ubican entre las quebradas y a los pies de la montaÑa, respectivamente.
		Es la última sección de la cordillera Oriental que se encuentra sobre la provincia Sur Lípez del departamento de Potosí extendiéndose hasta la frontera con la República de Argentina.
	www.umsanet.edu.bo /misc/bolivia/III12.HTM (1026 words)

	Patuxent Product Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Recent collecting in the northern Cordillera Central and review of older collections from the central Cordillera Oriental in the vicinity of Bogotá yielded additional specimens that permit reevaluation of the two geographic populations of these small-eared shrews.
		Morphological and morphometrical studies indicate that the population inhabiting the Cordillera Oriental represents a distinct, previously unrecognized species that I describe herein as Cryptotis brachyonyx.
		Study of 54 specimens of shrews from the Cordillera Oriental in systematic collections in North America, South America, and Europe yielded only four specimens of the new species, all collected before 1926.
	www.pwrc.usgs.gov /prodabs/ab10030304/abs6120.htm (174 words)

	Advances on Conodont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The assemblages of the Eastern Cordillera are characterized by Atlantic and Baltic types across the Lower Ordovician.
		The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary interval spans the middle part of the La Silla Formation, Argentine Precordillera, and the lower part of the Santa Victoria Group, Cordillera Oriental, where the referred biozone might be recognized (Lehnert, 1995a).
		The Santa Gertrudis Formation exposed in the Mojotoro Range, Cordillera Oriental of Salta, bears a conodont assemblage that could be attributed either to the lower part of the Amorphognathus tvaerensis Zone (Albanesi and Rao, 1996) or underlying units, but the lack of key species preclude a reliable assignment.
	www.unt.edu.ar /fcsnat/INSUGEO/geologia_16/11-Albanesi.htm (8734 words)

	Ecogeographical zones
		To the south of the Pisba-Sumapaz páramos, the Cordillera Oriental is a narrow range of modest elevations (seldom over 2500 m.s.n.m.) that joins the eastern flank of the Cordillera Central.
		To the north of the Pisba-Sumapaz complex, the cordillera divides with the Venezuelan Cordillera de Mérida extending off to the northeast and the Serranía de Perijá extending toward the north and forming the border between Colombia and Venezuela.
		Its frog fauna shows no resemblance to the Guyanan region, rather it is merely an isolated fragment of the eastern flank of the Cordillera Oriental.
	www.accefyn.org.co /ranas/frogs/search_biomap_map_h_region.htm (166 words)

	USGS P 1386-I -- Peru - Intro
		The largest system, which is in the central northern part of Perú in the Cordillera Blanca, extends along a distance of 200 kilometers; it has a total glacierized area of 723.4 square kilometers.
		In the Río Santa valley, adjacent to the Cordillera Blanca, for example, 22 such catastrophes of glaciological origin have taken place since 1702 and have caused the destruction of towns, villages, and croplands and have killed tens of thousands of inhabitants.
		The Peruvian Andes comprise three major ranges or cordilleras: Cordillera Occidental on the west, Cordillera Central in the middle, and Cordillera Oriental on the east (fig.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1386i/peru/intro.html (691 words)

	DRpure.com: Geography: Adventure Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most northerly of these ranges is the Cordillera Septentrional, which extends from the coastal town of Monte Cristi near the Haitian border to the Samana Peninsular in the east, running parallel to the Atlantic coast.
		The Cordillera Central is home to the four highest peaks in the West Indies: Pico Duarte (3,175m), La Pelona (3,087m), La Rucilla (3,049m) and Pico Yaque (2,760m).
		The other main highland area, the Cordillera Oriental, is lower than the other mountain ranges.
	www.drpure.com /print.php?topic=Geo&page=7 (259 words)

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