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Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin serra) may refer to the following:

Places

Mountains and mountain ranges

  • 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

Africa

  • Sierra Leone, a country located on the coast of West Africa

Asia

  • Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippines

Europe

North America

  • 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Sierra (Dollhouse), a character in Joss Whedon's TV series Dollhouse
  • Sierra, a character in The Land Before Time VII
  • Sierra, a character from the Canadian animated TV series Total Drama
  • Sierra Burgess, the titular character in the Netflix movie Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
  • Sierra McCoy, a character of Josie in the TV series Riverdale
  • Sierra Williams, a character in the Canadian TV series Catwalk

Music

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
  • , 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

  • 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

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Sierra para niños

  • All pages beginning with Sierra
  • All pages with titles containing "Sierra"
  • Cera (disambiguation)
  • Cerro (disambiguation)
  • La Sierra (disambiguation)
  • High Sierra (disambiguation)
  • Sierra Nevada (disambiguation)
  • Serra (disambiguation)
  • Serra (surname)
  • Sierre, Switzerland
  • Jamón serrano, Spanish for "Sierra ham"
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