“I still wanted to look at the Cordillera Occidental, the western cordillera, the other main chain of the Andes.”

“Greater complexity is not justified since there are large probable errors in elevation and terrain corrections in the cordillera.”

“To the east the cordillera was scorched and spent, rubbled by decades of desperate agriculture.”

“Great mountain ranges known as cordilleras divide Spain into distinct natural regions.”

“The antillean mountains in a general way connect or intervene between the Pacific and the Andean cordilleras.”

“Eastern margin of the western cordilleras, extending from Alaska to Mexico.”