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Largest mountain ranges of the world: Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Urals, Drakensberg
Top mountain ranges of the world, features, location, heights, map, range details
Himalayas
- They separate the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
- The Himalayan range is home to the planet’s highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
- By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia – Aconcagua, in the Andes – is 6,961 meters tall.
The Drakensberg Mountains
Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge is located in the northern region of the majestic Drakensberg mountains.
The range spans more than 1,000km across parts of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and Tzaneen in Limpopo Province.
The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa, rising to 3,482 meters at its highest peak, which is Thabana Ntlenyana in Lesotho.
Andes
- The Andes is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
- Formed due to Ocean-Continent collision.
- The average height of about 4,000 m.
- Spread along Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
Ural Mountains
- Mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan.
- Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia.
Rocky Mountains
- Mountain range in western North America.
- The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles.
- Spread along northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern U.S.
