Exploration in the Northernmost Andes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4709549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allan Cunningham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 344 |
| Publication date | 1957-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1791423 |
| OpenAlex | W2312585773 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
ON two previous occasions, meetings of this Society have been addressed on the subject of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; in 1881 by F. A. A. Simons,1 and in 1925 by A. F. R. Wollaston.2 The mountains they described, now known to be the highest coastal range in the world, form an equilateral triangle of roughly 70 miles side, and could be accommodated fairly comfortably in the county of Yorkshire. Rearing in the immediate hinterland of the Colombian port of Santa Marta to heights of almost 19,000 feet, they fall away southward by easier gradients to the Rios Rancheria and Cesar, which separate them from the Cordillera Central yet further south. It was perhaps natural that the first explorers of this isolated massif thought it had no connection with the main Andean system. Simons, who stressed the point, was supported by the German geologist Sievers, who related the Sierra Nevada to an old land mass of which he believed Aruba and Curacao to be rem? nants. 3 The latest inves
Geodesy · Geography · Physical geography · Geology · History and Politics in Latin America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |