Sierra
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Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin serra) may refer to the following:
Places
[edit]Mountains and mountain ranges
[edit]- Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
- Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range in Andalusia, Spain
- Sierra Madre (disambiguation), various mountain ranges
- Sierra Madre (Philippines), a mountain range in the east of Luzon, Philippines
- Sierra mountains (disambiguation)
- Sierra Nevada, a mountain range in the U.S. states of California and Nevada
- Sierra Nevada (Spain), a mountain range in Andalusia, Spain
- Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
- Sierra Maestra, a mountain range in Cuba
Other places
[edit]Africa
[edit]- Sierra Leone, a country located on the coast of West Africa
Asia
[edit]- Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippines
Europe
[edit]- Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain), Andalusia, Spain
- Sierra Nevada Observatory, Granada, Spain
North America
[edit]- High Sierra Trail, California, United States
- Sierra County, California
- Sierra County, New Mexico
- Sierra Foothills AVA, an American Viticultural Area in California
- Sierra National Forest, California, United States
- Sierra Sky Park Airport, Fresno, California
- Sierra Valley, in Plumas and Sierra counties, California
South America
[edit]- Sierra (Ecuador), the mountain region of Ecuador
- Sierra (Peru), the mountain region of Peru
- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a national park in northern Colombia
- Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela), a national park in the Andean Region of Venezuela
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Music
[edit]- Sierra (group), American musical artists
- Sierra (metal band), Canadian progressive rock band
- "Sierra" (song), a song by Maddie & Tae
- "Sierra", a song by Cursive from the 2003 album The Ugly Organ
- "Sierra", a song by Boz Scaggs on 1994's Some Change
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Sierra (film), a 1950 Western starring Audie Murphy
- Sierra (magazine), published by the Sierra Club
- Sierra (TV series), a 1974–1975 NBC television show produced by Universal Studios
- Sierra Entertainment, a defunct developer and publisher of video games
Computing
[edit]- Sierra (supercomputer), or ATS-2, a supercomputer for nuclear weapon simulations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Sierra, a library management system developed by Innovative Interfaces
- macOS Sierra, the thirteenth major release of the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., formerly known as Mac OS X and OS X
Organizations
[edit]- Sierra Club, an environmental organization in the United States
- Sierra Club Canada, an environmental organization in Canada
- Sierra College, a community college located in Rocklin, California
Transportation
[edit]- Acme Sierra, an American experimental aircraft built in 1948
- Advanced Aeromarine Sierra, a glider
- Ford Sierra, a car produced by the Ford Motor Company
- GMC Sierra, various trucks and SUVs produced by General Motors
- Sierra-class corvette, a ship class of the Mexican Navy
- Sierra-class submarine, a Russian attack nuclear submarine
- USS Sierra (disambiguation), the name of more than one United States Navy ship
- USS Stokes (AKA-68), a United States Navy attack cargo ship named SS Sierra from 1947 to 1961 while in commercial service
Other uses
[edit]- Sierra (name)
- Sierra (retailer), an off-price retailer formerly known as Sierra Trading Post
- Pacific sierra or Mexican sierra (species Scomberomorus sierra), a Spanish mackerel fish
- PMC-Sierra, a semiconductor company
- Sierra, the NATO phonetic alphabet designation for the letter S
See also
[edit]Search for "Sierra" on Wikipedia.
- All pages with titles beginning with Sierra
- All pages with titles containing Sierra
- Cera (disambiguation)
- Cerro (disambiguation)
- High Sierra (disambiguation)
- Jamón serrano, Spanish for "Sierra ham"
- La Sierra (disambiguation)
- Sierra Nevada (disambiguation)
- Serra (disambiguation)
- Serra (surname)
- Sierre, Switzerland