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Tilaran and is
The province is bounded on the east by a group of green-swathed volcanoes forming the Cordillera de Guanacaste ( which features Orosi, Rincón de la Vieja, Miravalles and Tenorio volcanoes ) and the Cordillera de Tilaran.
He divides his time between his professorship in biology at the University of Pennsylvania ( Philadelphia, USA ), where he has been since 1976, and his research and field work in Costa Rica, where he is an ad honorem ( without remuneration ) technical advisor for two long-term and long-range projects, which he conceived and initiated in the early 1970s: Area de Conservación Guanacaste, one of the oldest, largest and most successful habitat restoration project in the world, 1. 430 km², located just south of the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border, between the Pacific Ocean and the Cordillera de Tilaran ; and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad ( INBio ), a research organisation that has taken the task of inventorying, cataloguing and describing the country's gigantic natural endowment.
It is located in the Arenal Tilaran Conservation Area, and is close to the Arenal Volcano and Monteverde cloud forest.

Tilaran and Arenal
* Arenal Tilaran Conservation Area, a conservation area in Costa Rica
# Arenal Tilaran Conservation Area including the Arenal Volcano and Tenorio Volcano National Parks

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Hardly less important is the Ruwenzori Range, over, which lies east of the western trough.
The city is sied on the lower slopes of the Taragarh Hill in the Aravalli Range.
The Aravalli Range is the distinguishing feature of the district.
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
In the United States, the Teton Range is named after the French word for " breast ".
The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.
Chiles principal growing region and agricultural heartland is the Central Valley delimited by the Chilean Coast Range in the west, the Andes in the east Aconcagua River by the north and Bío-Bío River by the south.
The Guanacaste Range is in northern Costa Rica near the border with Nicaragua.
Much of the Talamanca Range is included in the La Amistad International Park, which is shared between Costa Rica and Panama.
The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the state of Colorado in the United States.
The area is located just east of the foothills of the Front Range, aligned in a north-south configuration on the western edge of the Great Plains, where they meet the Rockies.
The climate is hot and humid in the river basin and cool and dry in the southern highlands, with a cold, alpine climate in the Ruwenzori Range.
The atoll is approximately east of the coast of Africa ( at Tanzania ), south-southeast of the southern tip of India ( at Kanyakumari ) and west-northwest of the west coast of Australia ( at Cape Range National Park, Western Australia ).
Ellensburg is located just east of the Cascade Range on Interstate 90 and is known as the most centrally located city in the state.
Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872.
Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
The city is situated at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills of the northern Front Range approximately north of Denver, Colorado and south of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Just outside the town, parallel to the Nevis Range Gondola, there is a large downhill mountain bike track which attracts thousands of visitors every year, including international competitors and fans.
The Western Rift, also called the Albertine Rift, is edged by some of the highest mountains in Africa, including the Virunga Mountains, Mitumba Mountains, and Ruwenzori Range.
The island has five major mountain ranges: The Central Range, known in the Dominican Republic as the Cordillera Central, spans the central part of the island, extending from the south coast of the Dominican Republic into northwestern Haiti, where it is known as the Massif du Nord.

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The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.
Southern Burma consists largely of the western slopes of the Bilauktaung, the highest part of the Tenasserim Range, which extends southwards forming the central range of the Malay Peninsula.
The Hamgyeong Range, located in the extreme northeastern part of the peninsula, has many high peaks, including Mt.
Other major ranges include the Rangrim Mountains, which are located in the north-central part of North Korea and run in a north-south direction, making communication between the eastern and western parts of the country rather difficult ; and the Kangnam Range, which runs along the North Korea – China border.
The Extended Range Interceptor ( ERINT ) program was part of SDI's Theater Missile Defense Program and was an extension of the Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment ( FLAGE ), which included developing hit-to-kill technology and demonstrating the guidance accuracy of a small, agile, radar-homing vehicle.
Parallel mountain ranges extend from the Daen Lao Range ( ท ิ วเขาแดนลาว ), in the southern region of the Shan Hills, in a north / south direction, the Dawna Range ( ท ิ วเขาดอยมอนก ุ จ ู) forming the western border of Thailand between Mae Hong Son and the Salween River, the Thanon Thong Chai Range ( เท ื อกเขาถนนธงช ั ย ), the Khun Tan Range ( อยข ุ นตาน ), the Phi Pan Nam Range ( ท ิ วเขาผ ี ป ั นน ้ ำ ), as well as the western part of the Luang Prabang Range ( ะท ิ วเขาหลวงพระบาง ).
The Darwin Range in the south western part of the main island contains many glaciers that reach the ocean.
Because the only mountain-building since then has been of the Stirling Range with the rifting from Antarctica, the land is extremely eroded and ancient, with no part of the state above 1, 245 metres ( 4, 085 ft ) AHD ( at Mount Meharry in the Hamersley Range of the Pilbara region ).
A few manufacturers of such stoves, notably Kenmore Appliances and Viking Range Corp. now include a specially-designed high-output bridge-type wok burner as part of their standard or optional equipment, though even high-heat models are limited to a maximum of around 27, 000 BTU ( 7. 9 kW ).
The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes.
Mount St. Helens is west of Mount Adams, in the western part of the Cascade Range.
The Tetons, as well as the valley west of the Teton Range known today as Pierre's Hole, may have been named by French speaking Iroquois or French Canadian trappers that were part of Mackenzie's party.
In rocketry, telemetry equipment forms an integral part of the rocket range assets used to monitor the position and health of a launch vehicle to determine range safety flight termination criteria ( Range purpose is for public safety ).
Lead and silver were discovered in the southern part of the Groom Range in 1864, and the English Groome Lead Mines Limited company financed the Conception Mines in the 1870s, giving the district its name ( nearby mines included Maria, Willow and White Lake ).
The part of I-25 in Colorado passes just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
To the west, the city is bordered by a part of the Great Dividing Range commonly referred to as the Gold Coast hinterland.

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