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Northern Andes

mountains, South America

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Andes Mountains

  • Southern and Central Andes and Patagonia
    In Andes Mountains: Physical features

    …the Peruvian cordilleras; and the Northern Andes, encompassing the Ecuadorian, Colombian, and Venezuelan (or Caribbean) cordilleras.

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  • Southern and Central Andes and Patagonia
    In Andes Mountains: Physiography of the Northern Andes

    A rough and eroded high mass of mountains called the Loja Knot (4° S) in southern Ecuador marks the transition between the Peruvian cordilleras and the Ecuadorian Andes. The Ecuadorian system consists of a long, narrow plateau running from south to north bordered…

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geology

  • South America
    In South America: The Northern Andes

    North of the Gulf of Guayaquil in Ecuador and Colombia, a series of accreted oceanic terranes (discrete allochthonous fragments) have developed that constitute the Baudo, or Coastal, Mountains and the Cordillera Occidental. They were accreted during Cretaceous and early Cenozoic times. Structurally composed…

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