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TheAmerican Cordillera is a cordillera that consists of an essentially continuous sequence ofmountain ranges that form the western

"backbone" ofNorth America, Central America, South America andAntarctica.[1] From north to south, this sequence of overlapping and

parallel ranges begins with theAlaska Rangeand the Brooks Range inAlaska and run through the Yukon into British Columbia. The main

belt of the Rocky Mountains along with the parallel Coast Ranges of mountains and islands continue through British Columbia and

Vancouver Island. In the United States, the Cordillera branches to include the Rocky Mountains,[1] the Sierra Nevada, and the Cascades

and Coast ranges ofWashington, Oregon, and California. In Mexico, the Cordillera continues through the Sierra Madre Occidental and

Sierra Madre Oriental, as well as the backbone mountains of the Baja California peninsula.

The ranges of the Cordillera from Mexico northwards are collectively called the North American Cordillera orWestern Cordillera in the

United States and Canada, and also named as the Canadian Cordillera or Pacific Cordillera in Canada.

The Cordillera continues on through the mountain ranges ofCentral America in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and

Panama, and becomes theAndes Mountains ofSouth America. The Andes with their parallel chains and the island chains off the coast of

Chile continue through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,Argentina, and Chile to the very tip of South America at Tierra del Fuego. Inaddition, the range can possibly be followed through the arcuate South Georgia Ridge across the Southern Ocean to the mountains of

Graham Land on theAntarctic Peninsula.

The Cordillera are the eastern half of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which continues around the Pacific Ocean via Kamchatka and Japan to

Indonesia and Polynesia.

References

1. ^ab"Western Cordillera." Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus faculty website . Accessed June 2011.

Further reading

Silberling, N.J. et al. (1992). Lithotectonic terrane map of the North American Cordillera [Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-2176].

Reston, Va.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.

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