Andes South America Map

A map showing the physical features of South America. They extend from Chile to Venezuela through Colombia Argentina Bolivia Peru and Ecuador. The northern andes and the orinoco river basin and its drainage network. List of mountains in the andes.

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Andes South America Map. The Amazon Basin makes up much of Brazil. The Andes consist of a vast series of extremely high plateaus surmounted by even higher peaks that form an unbroken rampart over a distance of some 5500 miles 8900 kilometresfrom the southern tip of South America to the continents northernmost coast on the Caribbean. They separate a narrow western coastal area from the rest of the continent affecting deeply the conditions of life within the.

As the worlds longest mountain range the Andes stretch from the northern part of the continent where they begin in Venezuela and Colombia to the southern tip of Chile and Argentina. The Andes Mountains stretch from north to south along the entire western side of South America. The long range of the Andes holds mineral riches that have been being extracted since ancient times.

This map shows the continent of South America in shaded relief. Click here to sponsor this page. They form a continuous highland along the western coast of South America.

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