Sierra is a Spanish word meaning mountain chain and saw, from Latin serra. The corresponding word in Portuguese, Catalan and Latin is serra. This name is used for various mountain ranges in Spanish-speaking and other countries (with the word serra used in Portuguese-speaking countries).
Sierra or Sierras may refer to:
Argentina
- Sierra de Córdoba, in the central region of the country
- Antofagasta de la Sierra, a volcanic field
- Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, on the border of Argentina and Chile
- Sierra de la Ventana (mountains), Buenos Aires province
Brazil
- Serra do Mar, in the country's southeast
Chile
- Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano), La Araucanía Region
- Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, on the border of Argentina and Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
- Sierra Negra (Galápagos), Galápagos Province, Ecuador
Mexico
- Sierra de Juárez, Baja California
- Sierra Madre del Sur, in the country's south
- Sierra Madre Occidental, in the northwest of the country
- Sierra Madre Oriental, in the northeast of the country
- Sierra Nevada (Mexico), part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
- Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California
- Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico
The Philippines
- Sierra Madre (Philippines), on the island of Luzon
Portugal
- Serra da Estrela, in the north central region of the country
- Serra de Montejunto Protected Landscape, in the west region of the country
- Serra da Vila, in the west region of the country; see Castle of Carrazeda de Ansiães
- Serra do Socorro, in the west region of the country; see Mafra, Portugal
Spain
- Sierra de Gata, in the west region of the country
- Sierra de Gredos, near the central region of the country
- Sierra de Guadarrama, in the central part of the country
- Sierra de Mijas, in the south region of the country
- Sierra Morena, in the country's south
- Sierra Nevada (Spain), in the southeast region of the country
- Sierra de la Demanda, northern Iberian Peninsula
United States
- Sierra Ancha, central Arizona
- Sierra Blanca (New Mexico)
- Sierra Estrella, southwestern Arizona
- Sierra Madre Mountains (California), southwestern California
- Sierra Nevada (U.S.), California and Nevada
Uruguay
- Sierra Carapé, in the central part of the country
Venezuela
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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