Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre (Spanish for "mother mountain range") may refer to:
Places and mountains
Mexico
- Sierra Madre Occidental, a mountain range in northwestern Mexico and southern Arizona
- Sierra Madre Oriental, a mountain range in northeastern Mexico
- Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, a mountain range in south-central Mexico
- Sierra Madre del Sur, a mountain range in southern Mexico
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas, a mountain range which extends from southeastern Mexico
Central America
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas, the continuation of this mountain range crossing southern Guatemala, northern El Salvador, and western Honduras
Philippines
- Sierra Madre (Philippines), a mountain range on Luzon island
United States
- Sierra Madre Mountains (California), a mountain range in the state of California
- Sierra Madre Fault Zone, at the boundary to the San Gabriel Valley and San Fernando Valley
- 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake
- Sierra Madre, California, a town in Los Angeles County located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains
- Sierra Madre (Pacific Electric), a former railway line
- Sierra Madre Boulevard
- Sierra Madre Range (Wyoming), a mountain range in the south central portion of the state
Other uses
- Sierra Madre sparrow, Xenospiza baileyi, an endangered American bird
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel, Callospermophilus madrensis, a species of rodent
- Sierra Madre Casino, a fictional location in the Fallout: New Vegas video game
- BRP Sierra Madre (LT-57), a Philippine navy ship formerly USS Harnett County (LST-821), deliberately run aground on the Spratly Islands
See also
- Sierra (disambiguation)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a 1927 novel
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film), 1948 film made from the novel
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