There are other open plains in northern Colombia, sometimes covered with a shrubby growth, and the mesas (flat-topped mountains) and plateaus of the Cordilleras are frequently bare of trees.
Roughly calculated, two-fifths of the total area of Bolivia is comprised within the Andean cordilleras which cross its south-west corner and project east toward the Brazilian highlands in the form of a great obtuse angle.
This definition unfortunately ignored the fact that the Andes do not run from north to south in one continuous line, but are separated into cordilleras with valleys between them, and covering in their total breadth a considerable extent of country.
cordilleras הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד