Cordillera Central
The Cordillera Central is a volcanic mountain range in central Costa Rica which continues from the Continental Divide to east of Cordillera de Tilarán.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 3,228 metres
- Description: mountain range in Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Cordillera Central of Costa Rica” and “Costa Rica Central Cordillera”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Turrialba Volcano.
Turrialba Volcano
Volcano
Photo: Fbolanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Turrialba Volcano is an active volcano in central Costa Rica that has been explosively eruptive in recent years including 2016 and in January, March and April 2017.
Cordillera Central
- Categories: cordillera and landform
- Location: Cartago Province, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Cordillera Central” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Erdialdeko sumendi-katea (Costa Rica)”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko sumendi-katea”
- Catalan: “Serralada Volcànica Central”
- Cebuano: “Cordillera Central”
- Chinese: “哥斯達黎加中部山脈”
- Dutch: “Cordillera Central”
- French: “cordillère Centrale”
- French: “Cordillère Centrale”
- French: “cordillère volcanique centrale”
- German: “Cordillera Central”
- Hungarian: “Középső-Kordillera”
- Italian: “Cordigliera Vulcanica Centrale”
- Japanese: “中央火山山脈”
- Kotava: “Istefa Tculkafa Jaka”
- Ladin: “Cordillera Central”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinė Kordiljera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cordillera Central”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cordillera Central”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cordilhièra Centrala”
- Polish: “Kordyliera Środkowa”
- Portuguese: “Cordilheira Central”
- Russian: “Центральная Кордильера (Коста-Рика)”
- Russian: “Центральная Кордильера”
- Slovenian: “Cordillera Central, Kostarika”
- Spanish: “Cordillera Volcanica Central”
- Spanish: “Cordillera Volcánica Central”
- Swedish: “Cordillera Central”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cerro San Carlos and Turrialba Volcano National Park.
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