The Cordillera de la Costa Central is a range of the

Venezuelan Coastal Range The Venezuelan Coastal Range ( or ), also known as Venezuelan Caribbean Mountain System (), is a mountain range system and one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela, that runs along the central and eastern portions of Venezuela's northern coa ...

s System (''Cordillera de la Costa''), in northern

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Geography

The

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runs east— west along the northern

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coast. It is also known as the Central Range. In the east the Cordillera de la Costa Central follow the border between the states of

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and Miranda. They then pass through the states of

Aragua Aragua State (, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. It is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains, jungles and Caribbean beaches. The most popular beaches are Cata and Choroni. It has Venezuela's first national par ...

and

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, and the eastern part of the state of

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, and they terminate south of the Yaracuy river in the northern part of the state of Cojedes.

Ecology

Between , the mountains are covered by montane

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s and

Cordillera de la Costa montane forests The Cordillera de la Costa montane forests is a montane ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range (''Cordillera de la Costa'') on the Caribbean Sea in northern Venezuela. Location The ...

(ecoregion). The range forms part of an

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, as designated by

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References

Venezuelan Coastal Range Mountain ranges of Venezuela Mountain ranges of the Andes Geography of Aragua Geography of Cojedes (state) Geography of Carabobo Geography of Miranda (state) Geography of Vargas (state) Geography of Yaracuy {{Yaracuy-geo-stub