Identifier: canadianschoolge00corn (find matches)
Title: Canadian school geography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London Toronto : Dent
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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merica, and along the north are the Highlands of Guiana, corresponding to the Canadian Shield. Between the Andes Mountains and the Brazilian Highlands lies a great plain, which extends from the Highlands of Guiana to the southern point of the continent. The Andes Mountains are of recent origin, and in many parts they are still being gradually elevated. Many volcanic cones occur, and at the present time active volcanoes are quite numerous.These mountains are broadest and most massive toward the centre of the continent in Bolivia, though the highest peak, Aconcagua, is found farther south in Argentina. The Andes consist of several parallel ranges. In the south the coastal range forms a series of islands, and throughout northern Chile, Peru, and Ecuador it can be traced more or less distinctly near the coast, with a valley between it and the main range of the Andes. In the north the Andes divides into three branches, the most easterly of which extends along the north of Venezuela as far as the island
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( ouitis\ of Buenos Aires a nil Pacific Railway. FIG. l6g. THE PEACE MONUMENT PLACED AT THE CREST OF THE ANDES MOUNTAINS, ON THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN ARGENTINA AND CHILE. It represents Christ standing on the globe, on the boundary between the two countries, with a cross in His left hand, while His right points toward Heaven. This statue is placed on a spot above the line of vegetation and without house or building of any kind for miles around. SOUTH AMERICA 299 of Trinidad. The other two branches lie one on each side of the Magdalena River. The Brazilian Highlands are more ancient than the Andes, consequently they are much broken and more deeply eroded, while the rivers cut through them in deep canyons. They are highest near the eastern side and slope gradually inward. The great central plain forms the valley of the three largest rivers of the continent : the Orinoco in the north, the Amazon in Brazil, and the Rivers Plate and Parana in the south. The Orinoco drains the valley lying between the Highl

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