The Andean Region!

It consists of the three ranges of the Andes, for this is called “the Andean region”. It includes both the mountains and the valleys in an area of ​​approximately 305,000 km block the two and extends from the border with Ecuador to the foothills of the mountain ranges in the plain of the Atlantic and from west to east outer flank of the Western Cordillera to outer flank of the Eastern Cordillera.

The Central Cordillera is separated from the Occidental by a distance of 400m by a geological fault occupied by the Patia River south and north Cauca River.

The Cordillera Oriental is separated gradually eastward, creating the largest river basin of Colombia, the Magdalena. This ridge extends northwest and reaches its highest altitude at 5000 m, forming the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy before entering Venezuelan territory, where he acquired the name of Cordillera de Mérida. One arm, called Serrania de Perija, is evident from this northwards gradually losing altitude and reaches the Caribbean Sea in Punta Gallinas in the Guajira peninsula, northern Colombia. In Perijá approaches the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, forming a valley crossed by the river Cesar.