Series of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America
Pacific Coast Ranges
Canadian Coast Range, Whistler, British Columbia
Highest point
Peak
Mount Logan
Elevation
5,959 m (19,551 ft)
Dimensions
Length
3,800 mi (6,100 km)
Geography
Countries
United States, Canada and Mexico
Parent range
North American Cordillera
Malibu Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains
The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System[1] in the United States)[2] are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico. Although they are commonly thought to be the westernmost mountain range of the continental United States and Canada, the geologically distinct Insular Mountains of Vancouver Island lie farther west.
The Pacific Coast Ranges are part of the North American Cordillera (sometimes known as the Western Cordillera, or in Canada, as the Pacific Cordillera and/or the Canadian Cordillera), which includes the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia Mountains, the Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and other ranges and various plateaus and basins.
The Pacific Coast Ranges designation, however, only applies to the Western System of the Western Cordillera,[3] which comprises the Saint Elias Mountains, Coast Mountains, Insular Mountains, Olympic Mountains, Cascade Range, Oregon Coast Range, California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Nevada, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and other ranges and various plateaus and basins. The PacificCoastRanges designation, however, only applies...
mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains. Physiographically, they are a section of the larger Pacific Border...
The PacificRanges are the southernmost subdivision of the Coast Mountains portion of the Pacific Cordillera. Located entirely within British Columbia...
The Coast Mountains (French: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the PacificCoastRanges of western North America, extending from southwestern...
Oregon CoastRange, often called simply the CoastRange and sometimes the PacificCoastRange, is a mountain range, in the PacificCoastRanges physiographic...
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The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the PacificCoastRanges physiographic region in North America. The Transverse...
peaks on the continent. Its mountain ranges generally run north to south along three main belts: the PacificCoastRanges in the west, the Nevadan belt in...
The West Coast of the United States – also known as the PacificCoast, and the Western Seaboard – is the coastline along which the Western United States...
mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States. As a mountain system within both the greater PacificCoast Ranges...
The Inner CoastRanges are a long mountain range subsystem of the California CoastRanges, running generally north–south in western California, from Santa...
Elias Mountains (French: Chaîne Saint-Élie) are a subgroup of the PacificCoastRanges, located in southeastern Alaska in the United States, Southwestern...
from 2004 to 2008. The Cascade Range is a part of the American Cordillera, a nearly continuous chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that form the western...
Mountains are a range of mountains in the PacificCoastRanges on the Coast of British Columbia, Canada, comprising the Vancouver Island Ranges and Queen Charlotte...
the mountain ranges from the Pacific Ocean, compared to the outer ranges that are nearer to that ocean, and often larger. The inner ranges of mountains...
The Pacific footballfish (Himantolophus sagamius) is a species found in the Pacific. It has a wide range, extending from the coasts of Honshu (Gulf of...
definitions exist). The Pacific temperate rainforests lie along the western side of the PacificCoastRanges along the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America...
states. Mt. Linn is the third most prominent peak in the northern PacificCoastRanges behind Mt. Eddy and Caesar Peaks in the Trinity Alps and Mt. Olympus...
The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California CoastRanges subdivision of the PacificCoastRanges in northern California, United States. It stretches...
as the Pacific silver fir, is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the PacificCoastRanges and the Cascade Range. It is...
Willamette Valley in Oregon. Along the coast is a series of low mountain ranges known as the PacificCoastRanges. Alaska contains some of the most dramatic...
CoastRange Klamath Mountains California Trough California CoastRanges Transverse Ranges (Los Angeles Ranges) Cascade-Sierra province PacificCoast Ranges...
Aleutian Islands, and trending southeast into British Columbia and the PacificCoastRanges. The mountains act as a high barrier to the flow of moist air from...
occupies a narrow coastal zone of Alaska, between the Pacific Ocean and the northernmost PacificCoastRanges, covering an area of 23,300 square miles (60,400...
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