Mount Paramillo

mountain, Colombia

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Mount Paramillo is a mountain located in the Cordillera Occidental, one of the three main Andean mountain ranges in Colombia. This range runs parallel to the Pacific coast and reaches an elevation of 12,992 feet (3,960 meters) at Mount Paramillo in the department of Antioquia. The Cordillera Occidental is the lowest and least populated of Colombia's Andean ranges.1

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Colombia
Relief
…12,992 feet (3,960 metres) at Mount Paramillo in the department of Antioquia. From there the Cordillera Occidental fingers north into the three distinct serranías of Abibe, San Jerónimo, and Ayapel, forested ranges that drop gradually toward the piedmont plains of the Caribbean littoral. A lesser topographic feature on the Pacific…
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…12,992 feet (3,960 metres) at Mount Paramillo in the department of Antioquia. From there the Cordillera Occidental fingers north into the three distinct serranías of Abibe, San Jerónimo, and Ayapel, forested ranges that drop gradually toward the piedmont plains of the Caribbean littoral. A lesser topographic feature on the Pacific…
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Andes Mountains
Physiography of the Northern Andes
…of nearly 13,000 feet at Mount Paramillo before descending in three smaller ranges into the lowlands of northern Colombia. The Cordillera Central is the highest (average altitude of almost 10,000 feet) but also the shortest range of Colombian Andes, stretching some 400 miles before its most northerly spurs disappear at…
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…of nearly 13,000 feet at Mount Paramillo before descending in three smaller ranges into the lowlands of northern Colombia. The Cordillera Central is the highest (average altitude of almost 10,000 feet) but also the shortest range of Colombian Andes, stretching some 400 miles before its most northerly spurs disappear at…
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