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nouna mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast
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- ji a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia
- amazon a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)
- chile a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast
- volcanic igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
- coca a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine
- edison United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
- magdalena a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla
- intrigue a clandestine love affair
- ecuador a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes
- sas a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)