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	Andes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cordillera de la Costa begins near Cape Horn, which is composed principally of crystalline rocks, and its heights are inconsiderable when compared with those of the true Cordillera of the Andes.
		The latter, as regards its main chain, is on the northern coast of the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the deep depression of Lake Fagnano and of Admiralty Sound.
		While the western range of the Cordillera is principally formed by volcanic rocks, the eastern (to the east of the range is Cerro Potosí, (4700 m (15,400 ft) Andes of Bolivia are chiefly composed of old crystalline rocks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cordillera_de_la_Costa (3649 words)

	ANDES - LoveToKnow Article on ANDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Cordillera de la Costa begins near Cape Horn, which is composed principally of crystalline rocks, and its heights are inconsiderable when compared with those of the trueCordillera of the Andes.
		As Admiralty Sound and Lake Fagnano bound the Cordillera to the north in Tierra del Fuego, so at the eastern side of the Cordillera in the southernmost part oi the continent there is a longitudinal depression which separates the Andes from some independent ridges pertaining to a secondary parallel broken chain called the pre-Cordillera.
		While the western range of the Cordillera is principally formed by volcanic rocks, the eastern (to the east of the range is Cerro Potosi, 15,400 ft.) Andes of Bolivia are chiefly composed of old crystalline rocks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANDES.htm (2498 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA44, Mediterranean Region and La Campana National Park, Chile
		The Andean Cordillera is the consequence of a complex series of tectonic uplifts from the Late Cretaceous accompanied by volcanic activity in the Oligocene and Miocene, followed by widespread erosion in the Late Tertiary.
		La Campana NP is important for its ecological value and as a recreational, educational and historical centre for much of the population.
		The landscape of the Mediterranean region is greatly altered, particularly the Cordillera de la Costa, the Valle Central and the Andean precordillera.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa44.htm (3703 words)

	Lake Valencia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Valencia (Spanish: Lago de Valencia) is the second largest lake in Venezuela, exceeded in size only by Lake Maracaibo.
		It occupies one of the so-called Aragua valleys, enclosed between the parallel mountain ranges of the Cordillera de la Costa, the Maritime Andes.
		Despite its picturesque location between the Cordillera de la Costa to the north and the Serrania del Interior to the south, Lake Valencia’s poor water quality limits opportunities for tourism and recreational activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Valencia (311 words)

	ANDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Of the two principal chains the eastern is generally called Los Andes, and the western La Cordillera, in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where the eastern is likewise known as Cordillera Real de los Andes, while to the south of parallel 23 deg.
		S. As Admiralty Sound and Lake Fagnano bound the Cordillera to the north in Tierra del Fuego, so at the eastern side of the Cordillera in the southernmost part of the continent there is a longitudinal depression which separates the Andes from some independent ridges pertaining to a secondary parallel broken chain called the pre-Cordillera.
		To the north of Mount la Torre flows in the river Cisnes, 44 deg.
	simplestartpage.com /2301_ANDES.HTML (3452 words)

	Estado de América del Sur que ocupa la franja sudoccidental de este subcontinente
		La depresión longitudinal abarca, en la mitad N, una vasta región de pampas o tierras áridas, entre las que destaca la pampa del Tamarugal, al O del desierto de Atacama, y una serie de pequeños valles perpendiculares a la costa.
		Los ríos chilenos descienden de la cordillera andina a la costa, orientados por tanto de E a O y con un recorrido que alcanza poca longitud.
		La tasa de crecimiento es de las más bajas de América del Sur, así como la densidad demográfica.
	www.proyectosalonhogar.com /Paises/Chile.htm (2371 words)

	ANDES - Online Information article about ANDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		foot of the Cordillera, separating this from the pre-Cordillera, which is parallel to the Cordillera de la Costa of Chile.
		To the north of Tres Cruces is a transversal depression in the Cordillera, which is considered to be the southern termination of the high plateau of the Puna.
		In that region the Cordillera Llullaillaco (21,720), 1l.Iiniques (19,357), Socompa (19,948), Licancaur (19,685), Viscachuclas (20,605), Tapaquilcha (19,520), Oyahua (19,242), Ancaquilcha (20,275), Olca (19,159), Mino (20,112), Sillilica (21,100).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ANC_APO/ANDES.html (4478 words)

	Encyclopedia: Andes
		Cordillera de la Costa means Mountains on the Coast.
		Sea lions on La Isla de Los Lobos in the Beagle Channel Glacier on the north shore of the Beagle Channel Beagle Channel is a strait separating islands of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, in extreme southern South America.
		The Cordillera Real (also Cordillera of Quito, Cordillera Central of Ecuador) is a chain of mountains in the Andes of Ecuador, the chief of them volcanic.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Andes (5423 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Cordillera La Costa montane forests (NT0117)
		The Cordillera de la Costa, or Costa mountain range, is separated from the Andes by the Yaracuy depression, and from the southern forests of the Guyanan floristic province by the extensive Llanos.
		Two main portions of the western Cordillera de la Costa are usually recognized, the Serranía del Litoral in the northern mountain range along the coastline of the Caribbean Sea, and the Serranía del Interior south of Valencia lake and the valleys of Caracas.
		The climate of the Cordillera de la Costa is strongly influenced by the north-eastern trade winds, specially during the dry season from December to April, whereas during the rainy season the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) reaches its northern winds with high moisture.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0117_full.html (2765 words)

	Andes
		The Cordillera of the Andes in Tierra del Fuego is formed of crystalline schists, and culminates in the snow-capped peaks of Mount Darwin and Mount Sarmiento 2200 m(7200 feet), which contains glaciers of greater extent than those of Mont Blanc.
		To the north of Mount la Torre flows in the river Cisnes, 44°48'S, across another water gap, continuing the range to the north with high peaks, as Mount Alto Nevado 2240 m (7350 feet) and Mount Cacique 2100 m (7000 feet).
		While the western range of the Cordillera is principally formed by volcanic rocks, the eastern (to the east of the range is Cerro Potosi, (4700 m (15,400 feet) Andes of Bolivia are chiefly composed of old crystalline rocks.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andes.html (3415 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The park extends along the range of mountains forming the Cordillera de la Costa; 30°34'S, Las Chinchillas is located approximately 200km away, 15km northeast of the village of Auco.
		Las Chinchillas was established as a reserve under Supreme Decree No. 153, 30 November 1983 and added to the Biosphere Reserve.
		Las Chinchillas was private property until 1983 when it was acquired by the State.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0085q.htm (925 words)

	ande information,andes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Of the two principal chains the eastern is generally called Los ande, and the western La Cordillera, in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where the eastern is likewise known as Cordillera Real de los ande, while to the south of parallel 23°Sin Chile and Argentina, the western is called Cordillera de los ande.
		The Cordillera de la Costa begins near Cape Horn, which is composedprincipally of crystalline rocks, and its heights are inconsiderable when compared with those of the true Cordillera of theande.
		The Jurassic andCretaceous formations, which in the Southern Cordillera are situated outside of the range to the east, form to a considerableextent the mass of the great range, together with quartz porphyry, the Tertiary, granite and other eruptive rocks, which havebeen observed along all the chain in South America up to Alaska in the north.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /ande.html (3409 words)

	Andes
		The Cordillera of the Andes in Tierra del Fuego is formed of crystalline schists, and culminates in the snow-capped peaks of Mount Darwin and Mount Sarmiento (7200 feet), which contains glaciers of greater extent than those of Mont Blanc.
		The valley between them is 9000 feet high; and in that part of the Cordillera are situated the highest passes south of 33°S, one of which, the Piuquenes Pass, reaches 13,333 feet, whilst the easiest of transit and almost the lowest is that of Pichachen (6505 feet), which is the most frequented during winter.
		While the western range of the Cordillera is principally formed by volcanic rocks, the eastern (to the east of the range is Cerro Potosi, 15,400 feet) Andes of Bolivia are chiefly composed of old crystalline rocks.
	www.fact-index.com /a/an/andes.html (3276 words)

	Chile: The Central valley
		Unique Termas de Chillan, 480 krn south of the capital, combines a thermal spa and skiing on the slopes of a volcano, with excellent off-piste terrain and snowboard park.
		Hot-springs near Santiago include Termas de Colina, only 30 minutes from the city center; Termas del Corazon, 90 km distant; Jahuel, at 100 krn, north of the Aconcagua river; further south are Termas de Cauquenes, Quinamavida, and Catillo, all in the midst of exuberant vegetation.
		Just north are the beach resorts of Tome and Dichato, while to the south a road leads along the strip of land between the Cordillera de la Costa and the seashore, passing the country's premier carbon deposits.
	www.travelvantage.com /chi_cent.html (1136 words)

	Spanish Abroad - Places of Interest in Venezuela
		Lost amid the rolling forests of the Cordillera de la Costa, some 60km (37mi) west of Caracas, is the unusual mountain town of Colonia Tovar.
		Founded in 1843 by a group of German settlers, the town effectively shielded itself from any outside contact for almost a century: A lack of roads restricted access, and rigid social mores meant that the inhabitants remained exclusively tied to their own culture (marriage, for instance, was prohibited unless to another member of the colony).
		Though the trek involves discomforting amounts of rain, the climb is fascinating and the moonscape scenery at the top of the mesa is a science-fiction dream of flened rock, pink beaches and bewildering plant life.
	www.spanishabroad.com /venezuela/countryguide/places.htm (735 words)

	CPD: South America overview, centres of plant diversity and endemism, Carabbean region of SA
		The region includes the Cordillera de la Costa of Venezuela as well as the Llanos savanna grasslands, and the strongly seasonal lowland forests bordering the Caribbean coast.
		The region is delimited to the south by the Orinoco and its major Colombian tributary the Guaviare, and to the west the limit is the 500 m contour of the Andean Cordillera Oriental.
		The Cordillera de la Costa, geologically not a part of the Andes, is geographically in essence an Andean outlier, but floristically may be more similar to Central America.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa-i.htm (1097 words)

	ands information,andes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Of the two principal chains the eastern is generally called Los ands, and the western La Cordillera, in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where the eastern is likewise known as Cordillera Real de los ands, while to the south of parallel 23°Sin Chile and Argentina, the western is called Cordillera de los ands.
		As Admiralty Sound and Lake Fagnano bound the Cordillera to the north in Tierra del Fuego, so at the eastern side of theCordillera in the southernmost part of the continent there is a longitudinal depression which separates the ands from someindependent ridges pertaining to a secondary parallel broken chain called the pre-Cordillera.
		While the western range of the Cordillera is principally formed by volcanic rocks, the eastern (to the east of the range isCerro Potosi, (4700 m (15,400 feet) ands of Bolivia are chiefly composed of old crystalline rocks.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /ands.html (3409 words)

	Boletín GEOS
		Petrología y geoquímica de las rocas ígneas de Almont, Colorado.
		Consideraciones sobre la distribución espacial de biotita y hornblenda en rocas ígneas.
		Geoquímica delos elementos trazas de las rocas ígneas y metaígneas del área de Almont, Colorado.
	www.ucv.ve /ftproot/depgeo/BoletGEOS.htm (489 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Araya and Paria xeric scrub (NT1301)
		To the east, these mountains are separate by low lands from the mountains of the Paria peninsula, which belong to the Cordillera de la Costa montane forest ecoregion.
		The area occupied by the ecoregion is considered to be part of the Cordillera de la Costa, and to have its origins in the Tertiary (Steyermark, 1979).
		Although, the montane forests of Cerro Copey are similar to the Cordillera de la Costa montane forests, they show a low degree of endemism.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1301_full.html (2196 words)

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		The Cordillera de la Costa belt is lithologically, petrologically and geochronologically very heterogeneous with three distinct assemblages with oceanic, continental margin and continental basement affinities.
		In contrast, the Villa de Cura belt consists solely of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of oceanic affinity.
		The Cordillera de la Costa belt may have formed where the arc collided in a very oblique fashion with a microcontinental block related to the South American plate whereas the Villa de Cura belt formed in the same arc but in an intraoceanic environment.
	zephyr.rice.edu /department/research/hans1/WEB-AVE-RESEARCH.doc (719 words)

	ANDES INFO
		The Cordillera of the Andes in Tierra del Fuego is
		Cordillera, which is parallel to the Cordillera de la Costa of Chile.
		latter is very recent, for in the heart of the Cordillera, as well as on the west coast of Bolivia and Peru, there have been discovered, in very recent deposits, the remains of some mammals which cannot have crossed the high range as it now exists.
	www.witwib.com /?s=Andes (4168 words)

	Ave Lallemant, H. G.; Sisson, V. B.; Ertan, I. E. - 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Cordillera de la Costa belt along the coast of Venezuela consists of a mixture (melange) of rocks of "oceanic" and "continental" affinities metamorphosed at greenschist facies conditions with knockers of eclogite, kyanite-glaucophane schist, and blueschist, whereas the Villa de Cura belt to the south consists of coherent blueschists with only "oceanic" protoliths.
		Both belts were metamorphosed during mid Cretaceous in the subduction zone where "Proto-Caribbean" sea floor was overridden by the NE to E migrating "Great Arc of the Caribbean".
		These two belts have variable degrees of retrograde overprinting ranging from minimal for the Villa de Cura belt to extensive for the Cordillera de la Costa belt.
	www.pdvsa.com /lexico/bibgeol/bg3211.htm (333 words)

	SOS Children's Villages - Country Information on Venezuela
		In the east and in the north, the Andes and the Cordillera de la Costa are situated, also including Venezuela's highest elevation, Pico Bolivar with 5,007 m above sea level...
		In the centre of the country the Llanos (Spanish: plain) extend treeless tropical grassland, which merges into the Orinoco Lowlands (Llanos del Orinoco) towards the east.
		Even before the freedom fighters Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Miranda there had been attempts to achieve independence in 1797 and in 1806.
	www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/country_information_venezuela.html (1182 words)

	Regional Coalition for the Conservation of the Coastal Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Coalición por la Conservación de la Cordillera de La Costa
		COALICION POR LA CONSERVACION DE LA CORDILLERA DE LA COSTA
		The Coalition actions will focus on an area known for its high biodiversity, which has been a natural shelter for thousands of years, since the Terciary Age, when forests in Chile were restricted to small coastal areas of favorable climate.
	members.aol.com /mapulink2/english-2/action-08.html (478 words)

	Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The city lies between two chains of mountains, "Los Andes" to the east, and "La Cordillera de la Costa" to the west.
		As in most cities, it isn't difficult to see the difference in social status as you go from one place to the other, moving through poor areas and into the rich part of the city.
		Up towards the Andes, in Las Condes, is where the rich population have gathered.
	home.online.no /~ron-pett/chile/santiago.html (544 words)

	Southern Cone
		It is where the Cordillera de la Costa (the Coastal Mountain Range) disappears into the sea and only the majestic Cordillera de Los Andes (Andes Mountain Range) remains, rising above the immense Patagonian pampas.
		During the first phase, extending from 1810 to 1816, independence was achieved only in part of the La Plata viceroyalty (in what are now Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay); during the second phase, from 1816 to 1825, the colonials won complete freedom from Spain.
		Among the outstanding leaders of the fight for independence were the Venezuelans Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Miranda and the Argentinian José de San Martín.
	www.amyglenn.com /Geography/southcone.htm (1821 words)

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