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Friday, August 31, 2007

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #19 The Longest Mountain Range

The Andes is the Word's longest mountain range. Over 7,000 km long, 500 km at widest part and an average height of 4,000 m, it is about the width of Himalaya and almost twice as long although she doesn't beat the hight of the Himalaya.

The whole Andean range spread across 7 countries in the region including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The Aconcagua is the highest peak of Andes. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the equatorial bulge.

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