Cordillera Real (Ecuador)
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F Cordillera Real ( German " Cordillera " ) is the name of several high mountain ranges in the Andes of South America.
In Ecuador, where she also under the names of the Cordillera Central ( Central Range ) and the Cordillera Oriental ( Eastern Cordillera ) is known, it represents a relatively small system of parallel mountain chains is reaching its greatest height in the Cotopaxi ( 5897 m), near the highlands of Quito. The second Cordillera of the Andes in Ecuador is the Cordillera Occidental, the Western Cordillera.
The mountains and highlands occupies about a third of the national territory of Ecuador and is much more densely populated than the flat regions on the Pacific coast or on the east side toward the Amazon basin.
The Cordillera Real is about 150 to 200 km wide and goes north - across the border to Colombia - in a lower mountain country near the town of Pasto on while they are another 300 km to the northeast in three mountain chains divide ( Cordillera Occidental, Central and Oriental ) and widened to 300 to 400 km.
Also in the south - in Peru - shares the Cordillera equally into three equally named mountain ranges, between which only narrow valleys and some of the source rivers of the Amazon are.
The special morphology of the Ecuadorian Cordillera, however, has the expression of some wider Highlands result, which are blessed with good weather and siedlungsgeografisch. Here, therefore, also in the 18th century, the " Peruvian degree measurement" of the Paris Academy take place, which was the determination of the earth's shape and the definition of the meter to the target.
- Mountains in South America
- Geography (Ecuador)