It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America.

The Andes is long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system.

Colombia occupies most of the Andes mountain range northern extremity sharing a bit with Venezuela which splits into three branches between the Colombia Ecuador border.

The coca plant is native to the Andes.

These terrestrial plants are native to the Andes Mountains of South America and southern Central America.

The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region.

The first funicular section continued in operation, as it does to this day.

North of the Appalachians, the Arctic Cordillera runs along the eastern coast of Canada.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain.

Both are located in national parks in the Taebaek Mountains.

The region west of the Taebaek Mountains is called Yeongseo, while the region east of the mountains is called Yeongdong.

The top priority for USSOUTHCOM is to fight narcotics trafficking from the Andes to the Rio Grande.

But in 1822, as he crossed the Andes, Simón Bolívar confronted the Pastusos rebellion, who were accosting his army through guerrilla warfare.

In the mountain region, rain is frequent during summer, and temperature and humidity diminish with altitude up to the frozen peaks of the Andes.

The Hangendgletscherhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located in the Urbachtal in the canton of Bern.

Nearby mountain ranges include the Gallatin Range to the northwest, the Beartooth Mountains in the north, the Absaroka Range to the east, and the Teton Range and the Madison Range to the southwest and west.

The Alps are a high mountain range running across the central south of the country, comprising about 60 of the country's total area.

The Middle Atlas Mountains consist mostly of a series of limestone plateaus.

The Klein Grünhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, situated north of the Gross Grünhorn in the canton of Valais.

The community grew to urban proportions between AD 600 and AD 800, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes.

On November 2, 1940, a Breguet 19 intercepted the 3 Alpine Division Julia while it was penetrating Pindos mountain range and moving on to occupy Metsovo.

During its negotiations with Brazil, Peru stated that based on the royal cedula of 1802, it claimed Amazonian Basin territories up to Caqueta River in the north and toward the Andes Mountain range, depriving Ecuador and Colombia of all their claims to the Amazon Basin.

In 1948, the underwater Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean was named in his honor.

Sierra Club, which formed in 1892 to help protect the Sierra Nevada.

This set the border on the Karawanken mountain range, with many Slovenes remaining in Austria.

The pipeline brought oil from the east side of the Andes to the coast, making Ecuador South America's second largest oil exporter.

The second kind is the double puddling furnace, which was most often found on the east of the Allegheny Mountains.

In those early years many aviation milestones were achieved conquering the height of the Andes was one of the main targets as well as long distance flights.

To the south, the Taurus Mountains form the boundary with Cilicia and separate Cappadocia from the Mediterranean Sea.

Cocaine used to be America s problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.

HUMANO is a documentary film that tells the story of the journey of a young man into the mountains of the Andes, accompanied only by a camera, two hundred questions and the longing to discover the origins .

East of the Andes lies the savanna of the Llanos , part of the Orinoco River basin, and, in the far south east, the jungle of the Amazon rainforest.

Historical, geographical, and pictorial records point toward a consistent and progressive depletion of ice and snow masses in the Colombian Andes since the end of the Little Ice Age in the late 1800s.

In poor rural areas of the Andean and Amazon regions, the Government had launched a campaign to provide women and children with identification documents as a first step to the full exercise of their rights.

In southern Poland there are resorts for skiing and hiking in the Karkonosze mountains, which is part of the Sudetes mountain range.

A small band of Spaniards headed by Francisco Pizarro landed in Tumbez and marched over the Andes Mountains until they reached Cajamarca, where the new Inca Atahualpa was to hold an interview with them.

Hymettus (), also Hymettos ( , transliterated Ymīttós , pronounced ), is a mountain range in the Athens area, East Central Greece.

In the Highland Andes where a predominantely Mestizo, white and Amerindian population exist, the African presence is almost non existent except for a small community in the province of Imbabura called Chota Valley.

The North Anatolian Mountains in the north are an interrupted chain of folded highlands that generally parallel the Black Sea coast.

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The subduction zone runs along the edge of one of the continents and dips under it, raising volcanic mountain chains at some distance behind it, such as the Andes of South America today.

The View from Fez shares tips on mountaineering in the High Atlas.

The highest point, at 2,438 m (7,999 ft), is Mount Sinewit in the Baining range in the east.

Moreover, the cultivation, processing, and trafficking of cocaine and heroin continues throughout the Andean Ridge, despite tough eradication measures and extradition of traffickers by the US.

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