Important Mountain Ranges of the World

Important Mountain Ranges of the World

A list of some important mountain ranges of the world is given in the table below:

Name	Location	Highest Point
Cordillera de los Andes	Western South America	Aconcagua
Rocky Mountain Range	Western North America	Mount Albert
Himalayas- Karakoram -Hindukush	South Central Asia	Mount Everest
Great dividing range	Eastern Australia	Kosyusko
Trans Antarctica Mountain	Antarctica	Mount Vinson Massif
Tian Shan	South-Central Asia
Altai mountains	Central Asia	Gora Belukha
Ural Mountain range	Central Russia	Gora Narodnaya
Kamchatka ranges	Eastern Russia	Kluchevskaya Sopka
Atlas mountains	Northwest Africa	Jewel Toubkal
Western Ghats	Western India	Anaimudi
Sierra Madre Oriental	Mexico	Orijava
Jagros Mountain ranges	Iran	Jad Kuh
Elburz Ranges	Iran	Demavand
Scandinavian ranges	Western Norway	Galdhopijen
The Drakensberg ranges	Southeast Africa	Davanaentlenyana
Caucasus range	Russia	Elbrus
Alaska ranges	Alaska (USA)	Mount McKinley
Cascade ranges	Canada (USA.)	Mount Rainier
Apennine	Italy	Corno Grande
Appalachians ranges	Canada (Eastern USA)	Mount Mitchel
Alps	Central Europe	Mount blanc

 

Some facts about important mountain ranges:

Cordillera de los Andes:

The Andes run along the western side of South America. It is among the world’s longest mountain ranges.

The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.

• The Elevation of the Andes is 6,961m.
• It covers an area of 3.371 million km²
• The highest point in the Andes is Aconcagua
• The length is 7,000 km (4,350 mi)

Rocky Mountain Range:

The Rockies are the largest mountain system in North America. The rocky mountain formed 80 million to 55 million years ago.

• The highest point Mount Albert
• Elevation: 4,401 m (14, 439 ft)
• Length: 4,800 km (3,000 mi)

Himalayas- Karakoram –Hindukush

The Karakoram is a part of complex mountain ranges that include the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and Pamir ranges.

The Himalayas are mountain ranges in South Asia.

• The Hindukush is a range of mountains. This range starts near Pamir in north Gilgit extending in the Southwest deep into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
• The West of the Hindukush range is the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan that separates the Gilgit agency from Tajikistan.
• The highest 15 mountains in the world are in the Himalayas, out of the nine peaks are in the Nepal Himalayas.
• Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the earth, 8,849 meters.

Some major national parks in the Himalayas:

• Jim Corbett National Park
• Namdhpha National Park
• The Royal Chitwan Park
• Kaziranga National Park
• Royal Bardia National Park
• Great Himalayan National Park

Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range is also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands.

• Peak: Kosyusko
• Elevation: 2,228 meters.

Ural Mountain range

The Ural mountain ranges run approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and north-western Kazakhstan.

The Ural mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the regions of Europe and Asia.

• Peak: Mount Narodnaya
• Elevation: 1,895 m
• Length: 2,500 km

Atlas Mountains

The Atlas Mountain ranges are in the Maghreb in North Africa. Atlas Mountain separates the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert.

• Peak: Toubkal in Morocco
• Elevation: 4,167 m
• Countries: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.

The Western Ghats also called the Sahyadri Mountain range

The Western Ghats covers an area of 160,000 km2 in a stretch of 1600 km parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, traversing the states Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.

• Western Ghats is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is one of the eight biodiversity hotspots in the world.
• It is also called the Great Escarpment of India.
• The area is one of the world’s ten “Hottest biodiversity hotspots”.
• It has over 7,402 species of flowering plants, 1,814 species of non-flowering plants, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species, 227 reptile species, 179 amphibian species, 290 freshwater fish species, and 6,000 insect species
• Peak: Anaimudi, Eravikulam National park
• Elevation: 2,695m

Alps Mountain ranges:

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range that lies in Europe. It stretches through eight Alpine countries (West to East): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia.

Mont Blanc spans the French–Italian border, and at 4,809 m (15,778 ft) is the highest mountain in the Alps Mountain ranges.

• Peaks: Mount Blanc
• Elevation: 4,800 m
• Length: 1,200 km

Reference:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps

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