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cordillera) The Cordillera Central, or Central Highlands, of the Dominican Republic is a heavily wooded mountain range in the east of the country, close to the border with Haiti. It has many peaks rising to more than 3,048 m/10,000 ft, and the Pico Duarte, at 3,175 m/10,416 ft, is the highest point in the Caribbean. Group of mountain ranges and their valleys, all running in a specific direction, formed by the continued convergence of two tectonic plates (see plate tectonics) along a line. The term is applied especially to the principal mountain belt of a continent. The Andes of South America are an example.
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| We ascend the lofty peaks of the Cordillera and we find an alpine species of bizcacha; we look to the waters, and we do not find the beaver or musk-rat, but the coypu and capybara, rodents of the American type. In a lofty valley of the Cordillera, near Mendoza, I found another spider with a singularly-formed web. Some occur among the Cordilleras of the Andes, where cities, and towns, and cultivated farms are to be seen eight thousand feet above the level of the sea. |
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