Precordillera is a Spanish geographical term for hills and mountains lying before a greater range, similar to foothills. The term is derived from cordillera (mountain range)—literally "pre-mountain range"—and applied usually to the Andes.[1]
Some places usually called precordillera are:
Andean mountains east of the main ranges of Andes in Argentina. It is separated from the much higher Frontal Cordillera to the west by Uspallata Valley in Argentina.[2] Precordillera mountains reach around 3,000 m a.s.l. in Sierras de Villavicencio.[2]
Used all over Chile from north to south as a morphological unit lying just between the Andes and the Intermediate Depression.
^"precordillera". Diccionario de la lengua española - Edición del Tricentenario (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2017.
^ ab"Orografía de Mendoza". El Portal de Mendoza (in Spanish). Cámara de Turismo de Mendoza and Cooperativa El Portal de Mendoza. 13 March 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2019.