An extensive system of parallel mountain ranges, together with the plateaus, valleys and basins that lie between them, typically running the length of a continental margin above a long-lived subduction zone. The American Cordillera, stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, is the type example most often cited for the landform this term describes.
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