Sierra

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Contents 1 Mountains and mountain ranges 2 Place names 3 Other uses 4 Organizations 5 In films 6 People 7 Music 8 See also

Sierra is a word from the Spanish language meaning a mountain range. The word comes from the Latin serra, and literally means "saw." It is used for various mountain ranges in Spanish-speaking or formerly Spanish-speaking countries.

[edit] Mountains and mountain ranges

Main article: Sierra mountains

[edit] Place names

• High Sierra Trail, in California, United States
• Republic of Sierra Leone, Africa
• Sierra (Ecuador)
• Sierra (Peru)
• Sierra County, California, in the north of the states
• Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests, in Baja California, Mexico
• A number of mountain ranges and places called Sierra Madre
• Sierra National Forest, in California, United States
• Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain), in Andalusia, Spain
• Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela), in Venezuela
• Sierra Nevada Observatory, Granada, Spain
• Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park in northern Colombia
• Sierra de las Nieves, in Andalusia, Spain
• Sierra Valley, California, in Plumas and Sierra counties

[edit] Other uses

• Ford Sierra, a car produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1982 to 1993, the successor to the Taunus/Cortina
• GMC Sierra, a full-size pickup truck produced by General Motors
• Jamón serrano, Spanish for "Sierra ham"
• The NATO phonetic alphabet designation for the letter S
• Acme Sierra, an American experimental aircraft built in 1948
• Sierra-class submarine, a Russian attack nuclear submarine
• Sierra Mist, a softdrink
• Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, a California based brewery

[edit] Organizations

• Sierra Bullets, an ammunition manufacturing company
• Sierra Club, an environmental organization in the United States
• Sierra Club of Canada, an environmental organization in Canada
• Sierra Semiconductor, a semiconductor company now known as PMC-Sierra
• Sierra Wireless, a wireless communications equipment manufacturer
• Sierra Entertainment, an American computer game developer and publisher

[edit] In films

• Sierra (film), a 1950 film starring Audie Murphy
• Sierra (TV series), a 1974-1975 NBC television show that aired on Thursday nights
• Sierra (The Land Before Time), a character in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
• La Sierra, a 2005 US-/Colombian documentary about three boys of a gang in the Colombian drug war in the "Sierra"-District of Medellín, Colombia.

[edit] People

• Sierra (porn star), an African-American erotic actress from Atlanta
• Rubén Sierra, a baseball player
• Jessica Sierra, American Idol 4 contestant
• Javier Sierra, Spanish journalist
• Ciara, American singer (pronounced like Sierra but with a different spelling)

[edit] Music

• "Sierra," a song by Cursive from their 2003 album The Ugly Organ

[edit] See also

• serra, Portuguese for mountain range