Himalaya

"El Himalaya es una cordillera situada en el continente asiático, la cual se extiende por los países de Bután, Nepal, China e India.Su nombre procede del sánscrito , himlaya (se pronuncia jimaalaia) palabra compuesta por hima: nieve' y laya: morada, lugar'. Es la cordillera más alta de la Tierra, con diez de las catorce cimas de más de 8000 metros de altura, incluyendo el Everest, con sus 8848 msnm, la montaña más alta del planeta sobre el nivel del mar. Forma parte de un complejo orográfico mayor: el sistema de los Himalayas, un conjunto compuesto por las cordilleras del Himalaya, Karakórum, Hindú Kush y diversas otras subcordilleras que se extienden a partir del Nudo del Pamir y sus subcordilleras adyacentes. En el Himalaya nacen algunos de los mayores ríos del mundo como son el Ganges, Indo, Brahmaputra, Yamuna y Yangtsé, en cuyos cauces viven no menos de 1300 millones de personas. Las montañas del Himalaya han influido profundamente en las culturas de Asia del Sur y muchas de ellas son consideradas sagradas para el Hinduismo o el Budismo."

"The Himalayas, or Himalaya, (/hmle./ or /hmlj/) are a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayan range has the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over a hundred mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia Aconcagua, in the Andes is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall. The Himalayas are spread across five countries: Bhutan, India, Nepal, People's Republic of China, and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to some 600 million people. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism. Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long. Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of Indus river, its eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, just west of the great bend of the Tsangpo river. The range varies in width from 400 kilometres (250 mi) in the west to 150 kilometres (93 mi) in the east."