Andes Mountains | Form The Andes Mountains Ranges
The Andes longest mountain chains in the world, stretching along the west coast of the South American continent, and go through these mountain ranges on seven US states, namely: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.
It is the Andes mountain range top up after the Himalayas in Asia on the Indian sub-continent borders, with a summit of top high Andes peaks approximately seven kilometers; any 6959 meters above sea level, and this increase has been registered in the Aconcagua summit, the Andean no commercial Mountains Himalayas in height, but of the Andes mountain range along almost twice the length of the Himalayas.
Location
It is one of the broadest mountains along the length of South America in the west coast, and nearly the length of seven thousand and one hundred kilometers, the width mountains stretching amounts to five hundred kilometers, and an average elevation of four kilometers. It is said that the reason for naming these mountains as the return of the Andes to the volcanic activity that was launched lava formed about mostly of andesites, which formed the mountains of the region; they are the original component of those mountains.
Accidents in the series
Happened that crashed a private plane for the Air Force Uruguayan, and the flight number 571 over the Andes mountain range, and survived most of the passengers, but they are isolated for a record seventy-two days, and this happened in 1972, and is said to this incident witnessed by some of the survivors to eat the dead flesh; for lack of food in those remote, isolated mountains.
Geographic series
Divided Andean mountain ranges into three regions or natural areas, namely: the Southern Region, the Central Region and the Northern Region, and is the southern mountains are lower altitudes, amounts to high southern Andes rate of less than three kilometers (or 3,000 meters), located these mountains near the party continental South.
When you penetrate northwards along the coastline, the mountains become higher, more high peaks and hidden peaks close to the clouds, the highest peak in the Americas and continents are the Summit of Aconcagua, located in the State of Argentina, and is approximately 100 km from the capital Santiago, Chile.
Middle region is offering parts of this mountain and extends in the form of two extended to the Northwest and to the Southeast, located between these two strings the broad plains, or what is called the tapestry in Peru and Bolivia's Western Highlands, rising about four kilometres above sea level, on the north side of the northern and Western Highlands form a closer until finally they recombine to form one string overgrown in Ecuador.
Highest mountain peaks in the high County Center-6779, is top of the, and also the Huascarán 6768 m, Summit of Lambo or sorata which towered about 6485 yards, sagama 6542 metres high peak, Yamani 6402 m, wetshimborazo 6267 meters, and Cotopaxi 5897 meters.
Either the northern region of the Andes, divided into three major chains, but none reach the southern mountains rise, extending one of these chains along the coast, passing through Colombia and Panama, the middle part is called the central chain between everything River Valley and the Valley of the Cauca and Tolima volcano mountain the height of 5215 meters above sea level, extending the third series with Northeast, entering Venezuela.
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