The Cordillera Central, meaning central range in Spanish, is used to refer to several mountain ranges around the world:
- Cordillera Central, Andes (disambiguation), several mountain ranges in South America
- Cordillera Central, Colombia
- Cordillera Real (Ecuador)
- Cordillera Blanca (Peru)
- Cordillera Central (Bolivia)
- Cordillera Central, Costa Rica
- Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola
- Cordillera Central, Luzon in the Philippines
- Cordillera Central, Puerto Rico
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An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)