La Palabra Del Día "cordillera"
cordillera ( kohr-dee-YEH-rah )
noun ( mountain range, mountain chain )
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1: Hay una vista preciosa de la cordillera desde el mirador.
There's a lovely view of the mountain range from the overlook.
2: En los bosques de la cordillera viven venados, osos y muchos otros mamíferos.
In the forests of the mountain chain there are deer, bears, and many other mammals.
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Recientemente, leí un libro que explicaba cómo las truchas era capaz de cruzar una gran cordillera llamada Las Rocosas.
Recently, I read a book that explained how trout were able to cross a great mountain range named The Rockies.
El río Columbia ha tallado un paso por la cordillera de las Cascadas, y la garganta es muy magnífico, pero hemos aprendido a no tratar de atravesarla cuando hace mal tiempo.
The Columbia has carved a path through the Cascade range, and the gorge is very gorgeous, but we have learned not to try to go through it when the weather is bad.
En la región alrededor de la ciudad de Sacramento, todo el mundo se va a la cordillera Sierra Nevada para esquiar.
In the region around Sacramento, everybody goes to the Sierra Nevada mountain range to ski.
Great Dividing Range, también conocida como Great Divide, Eastern Highlands o Eastern Cordillera, la principal cuenca de Australia Oriental, la cordillera más importante de Australia y la tercera más extensa del mundo.
Great Dividing Range, also called Great Divide, Eastern Highlands, or Eastern Cordillera, main watershed of eastern Australia;Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world.
The man had decided to scale the vast mountain range and hoped he would reach his cabin before sun down, for this was when the wolves and bears roamed the woods.
El hombre había decidido escalar la inmensa cordillera y esperaba llegar a su cabaña antes que el sol cayera, porque era cuando los lobos y osos merodeaban por el bosque
Me gustan mucho las cordilleras, pero prefiero su vista si ellos hacen un circulo alrededor un lago bonito.
I like very much the mountain ranges, but I prefer their view if they make a circle around a nice lake.
Crecí cerca de los Sutter Buttes, la cordillera más pequeña del mundo.
I grew up near the Sutter Buttes, the world's smallest mountain range.
Construir muros en cordilleras harán sentir más seguros los payasos.
Building walls on mountain ranges will make clowns feel safer.
The majestic snow-capped mountain range towered over the pristine river that wound its way through large rock columns and small Swiss towns that littered the valley floor as far as the eye could see.
Los majestuosos cordilleras sobre el río prístino que hiere su manera a través de columnas de roca grandes y pequeñas ciudades suizas que cubrían el fondo del valle hasta donde el ojo podían ver.
La cordillera que puedo ver de mi ventana incluye un glaciar y un campo de hielo extensivo.
The mountain range that I can see from my window includes a glacier and an extensive ice field.
Nuestro amigo Ray ha explicado sobre la cordillera en Australia que se llama el Great Divide. Estas montañas capturan la lluvia llevado por el viento del este, y debido a eso la zona interior es más árido que la costa.
Our friend Ray has explained about the mountain range in Australia called the Great Divide. These mountains capture the rain carried by the wind from the east, and because of this the interior area is more arid than the coast.
One of the things that I want to do is to spend my holidays traveling across the Cantabrian mountain range on board of luxorious train named as "Transcantábrico".
Una de las cosas que quiero hacer es pasar mis vacaciones viajando a través de la cordillera cantábrica a bordo de un tren de lujo llamado Transcantábrico
En mi país de nacimiento: (el) Perú, hay una cordillera famosa que se llama: los Andes. Esta es una cordillera vasta que extiende por la costa del norte hasta al sur de América del sur por siete paises latinoamericanos differentes que incluye: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Argentina y Chile.
Se puede encontrar más información en Wikiedia si estás interesado. Haz clic aquí para seguir el enlace:
In my country of birth, Peru, there is a famous mountain range called the 'Andes'. This is a vast mountain range that extends along the western coast of South America from the north to the south through seven different Latin American countries (states) that include: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.
More information can be found at Wikipedia if you are interested. Click here to follow the link:
Caminar cerca de la cordillera es hermoso.
Walking near the mountain range is very beautiful.
