Andes
Andes, Andes Mountains ko Andean Mountains (Spanish; Quechua) su ne mafi tsayin tsaunukan nahiyoyi a duniya, suna a wani tsauni mai ci gaba a gefen yammacin Kudancin Amurka. Adadin shine  tsawo,  fadi (mafi faɗi tsakanin 18°S–20°S latitude), kuma yana da matsakaicin tsayi kusan  . Andes sun kara daga arewa zuwa kudu ta kasashe bakwai na Kudancin Amurka: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, da Argentina.

Tare da tsayin su, Andes sun rabu zuwa jeri da yawa, an raba su ta tsaka-tsakin ciki. Andes wuri ne na tuddai masu tsayi da yawa-wasu daga cikinsu suna karbar manyan birane kamar Quito, Bogotá, Cali, Arequipa, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Sucre, Mérida, El Alto da La Paz. Dutsen Altiplano shi ne na biyu mafi girma a duniya bayan tudun Tibet. An rarraba waɗannan jeri zuwa manyan sassa uku dangane da yanayi: Tropical Andes, Dry Andes, da Wet Andes.

Tsaunukan Andes sune mafi tsayin tsaunuka a wajen Asiya. Dutsen mafi tsayi a wajen Asiya, Dutsen Aconcagua na Argentina, ya kai tsayin kusan . sama da matakin teku. Kololuwar Chimborazo a cikin Andes na Ecuador ya fi kowane wuri nisa daga tsakiyar duniya fiye da kowane wuri a saman duniya, saboda kumburin equatorial da ke haifar da jujjuyawar duniya. Dutsen shiga mafi girma a duniya yana cikin Andes, ciki har da Ojos del Salado a kan iyakar Chile da Argentina, wanda ya kai .

Andes kuma wani ɓangare ne na Amurka Cordillera, jerin jerin tsaunuka (cordillera) wanda ya ƙunshi kusan ci gaba da jerin tsaunuka wanda ke samar da yammacin "kashin baya" na Arewacin Amirka, Amurka ta tsakiya, Kudancin Amirka da Antarctica.

Etymology 
An yi muhawara akan asalin kalmar Andes. Mafi rinjayen yarjejeniya shine cewa ya samo asali daga kalmar Quechua  'east'  kamar yadda yake a Antisuyu (Quechua a 'yankin gabas'),  ɗaya daga cikin yankuna huɗu na Daular Inca.

Kalmar cordillera ta fito ne daga kalmar Spanish Cordel 'igiya'  kuma ana amfani da ita azaman bayanin suna ga sassa da yawa na Andes, da kuma gaba dayan Andean, da kuma hadaddiyar sarkar tsaunuka tare da yammacin yankin Arewa. da nahiyoyin Kudancin Amurka.

Geography 

Ana iya raba Andes zuwa sassa uku:

 Kudancin Andes
 a Argentina da Chile, kudu da Llullaillaco.
 Central Andes
 a Peru da Bolivia.
 Arewacin Andes
 a Venezuela, Colombia, da Ecuador. A arewacin Andes, kewayon Saliyo Nevada de Santa Marta galibi ana ɗaukarsa azaman ɓangare na Arewacin Andes.

Tsibirin Leeward Antilles Aruba, Bonaire, da Curaçao, waɗanda ke cikin Tekun Caribbean kusa da bakin tekun Venezuela, an riga an yi tunanin suna wakiltar kololuwar da ke cikin matsananciyar gefen arewacin Andes, amma binciken  ƙasa ya nuna cewa irin wannan sauƙaƙan. baya yin adalci ga hadadden iyakar tectonic tsakanin plates na Kudancin Amurka da Caribbean.

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