Which mountain chain runs down the centre of South America?
Geography of South America Great American Interchange. The Andes, likewise a comparatively young and seismically restless mountain range, runs down the western edge of the continent; the land to the east of the northern Andes is largely tropical rain forest, the vast Amazon River basin. The continent also contains drier regions such as eastern Patagonia and the extremely arid Atacama desert. The South American continent also includes various islands, most of which belong to countries on the continent. The Caribbean territories are grouped with North America. The South American nations that border the Caribbean Sea—including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana—are also known
Hinterautal-Vomper Chain chain is divided into the Hinterautal ("Hinterau Valley") chain ("Hinterautalkette") in the west and the Vomper Chain ("Vomperkette") in the east and runs through the Karwendel Alps from Scharnitz in the west to the village of Vomp in the east. North of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain is the Northern Karwendel Chain ("Nördliche Karwendelkette"), to the south follows the Gleirsch-Halltal Chain, large parts of which have steep, northern slopes, often vertical and hundreds of metres high which are typical of the four Karwendel mountain chains. Along the western part of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain runs a difficult, high alpine mountain path which is