🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Occidental, or Western Cordillera, is the westernmost major mountain division of the Peruvian Andes. Extending through much of Peru, it forms an extraordinary highland landscape of glacier-covered summits, volcanic peaks, deep canyons, windswept plateaus, alpine lakes, and traditional Andean communities. Rather than being a single, uniform mountain range, the Cordillera Occidental …
