Synonyms of cordillera

cordillera

noun

as in sierra

Related Words

• sierra
• mountain range
• mountain
• mount
• peak
• range
• seamount
• hump
• alp
• knob
• inselberg
• summit
• mountaintop
• horn
• pinnacle
• aiguille

Dissimilar Words

• valley
• basin
• depression
• bowl
• vale
• hollow

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cordillera

At least 5,000 people perished, most of them in La Guaira state, a strip of cities and slums crammed between the coastal cordillera and the Caribbean Sea, half an hour from Caracas. — Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026

Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire. — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019

Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes. — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019

The plane carrying the coffin with Paloma’s mother is rerouted to Argentina, and the three rent a hearse and cross the cordillera to find her. — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019