South America
Colombia

Cordillera Occidental

The Cordillera Occidental is the lowest in elevation of the three branches of the Colombian Andes. The average altitude is 2,000 m and the highest peak is Cerro Tatamá at 4,100 m.
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  • Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 1,516 metres
  • Description: mountain range in Colombia
  • Also known as: “Cordillera del Chocó”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tatamá National Natural Park.

Peak
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a national park in the Cordillera Occidental, . Established in 1987, the park encompasses 51,900 ha of primary west-Andean tropical and subtropical rainforest, temperate cloud forest, and páramo habitat in an area that spans the departments of , and , within the Chocó bioregion.

Cordillera Occidental

Latitude
5.166° or 5° 9′ 58″ north
Longitude
-76.105° or 76° 6′ 18″ west
Elevation
1,516 metres (4,974 feet)
Open location code
67Q55V8V+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5653766321
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Geo­Names ID
3673656
Wiki­data ID
Q278057
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Venetian—“Cordillera Occidental” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Mendebaldeko Mendikatea (Kolonbia)”
  • Basque: “Mendebaldeko Mendikatea”
  • Cebuano: “Cordillera Occidental (kabukiran sa Colombia)”
  • Cebuano: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Central Bikol: “Cordillera Occidental (Colombia)”
  • Central Bikol: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Chinese: “哥倫比亞西部山脈”
  • Czech: “Západní Kordillera”
  • Dutch: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Esperanto: “Cordillera Occidental (Kolombio)”
  • Esperanto: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • French: “Cordillère Occidentale”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთი კორდილიერები (კოლუმბია)”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთი კორდილიერები”
  • German: “Cordillera Occidental (Kolumbien)”
  • German: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Italian: “Cordigliera Occidentale”
  • Italian: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Japanese: “オクシデンタル山脈 (コロンビア)”
  • Japanese: “オクシデンタル山脈”
  • Ladin: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Latin: “Cordillera Occidentalis Columbiae”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Kordiljera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cordillera Occidental (Colombia)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Norwegian: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Polish: “Kordyliera Zachodnia w Kolumbii”
  • Polish: “Kordyliera Zachodnia”
  • Portuguese: “Cordilheira Ocidental (Colômbia)”
  • Portuguese: “Cordilheira Ocidental”
  • Russian: “Западная Кордильера (Колумбия)”
  • Russian: “Западная Кордильера”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadni Kordiljeri (Kolumbija)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadni Kordiljeri”
  • Slovenian: “Cordillera Occidental, Kolumbija”
  • Slovenian: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Swedish: “Cordillera Occidental”
  • Swedish: “Västkordiljäran”
  • Turkish: “Batı Kordilerası (Kolombiya)”
  • Turkish: “Batı Kordilerası”
  • Ukrainian: “Кордильєра-Оксиденталь”
  • Venetian: “Cordejera Occidentale”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cordillera Occidental”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.