List of mountains named The Sleeping Lady

"La India Dormida" (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton, Panama.

The Sleeping Woman, sometimes also The Dead Woman, is a name or nickname for certain mountain formations located in different places in the world that are said to look like a reclining woman in the local tradition.

Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"

• Western United States (in both cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
  • Mount Tamalpais, near San Francisco, California
  • Mount Susitna, near Anchorage, Alaska.
• Algeria: Mount Chenoua, according to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman.^[1]
• Cambodia: Phnom Kong Rei.^[2]
• China:
  • Sleeping Beauty Range (睡美人山) near Kunming.^[3]
  • Sleeping Beauty, Danxia near Shaoguan city.^[4]
• Martinique: Morne Larcher (Larcher Hill) called " la femme couchée" (the sleeping woman) is located in Diamant, Martinique.
• Mexico: Iztaccíhuatl
• Norway: Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as Skjomtind, a mountain range near Narvik, Norway.
• Peru: Pumarinri (Quechua for "cougar ear") or La Bella Durmiente (Soanish for Sleeping Beauty) a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman in Tingo Maria National Park, José Crespo Y Castillo District.
• Philippines: Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines.
• Thailand: Doi Nang Non in the Daen Lao Range.
• Pakistan: Kohat valley mountain. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan.
• Panama, La India Dormida (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton.

Similarly named mountains

• La Noyée (the drowned lady). A mountain range seen from Notre-Dame-des-Monts, Quebec. Local legend says the mountains are the silhouette of a Native American woman who drowned while swimming across Lac Nairne to meet her lover.
• La Mujer Muerta (the dead woman). A mountain range located in the Sistema Central, Spain. Highest point La Pinareja, 2197 m.
• Turó de la Dona Morta (Dead Woman hill), a mountain near Maçanet de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain
• Jebel Musa (Morocco) the mountain is also known as The Dead Woman (Spanish: la Mujer Muerta), because from the direction of Ceuta, around the town of Benzú, it resembles a woman on her back.^[5]

Ranges by the name of The Sleeping or the Dead Lady

Sleeping Lady from Anchorage, Alaska at dusk

View of La Mujer Muerta, the dead woman, Segovia Province, Spain.

View of Pumarinri (La Bella Durmiente) in Peru.

See also

• Dead woman
• Breast shaped hill

Further reading

• Dixon, Ann. (1994). The Sleeping Lady. Anchorage, AK : Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 0-88240-444-X (hardbound) ISBN 0-88240-495-4 (paperback)
• Robertson, David (1991). "Mt. Tamalpais: The Legendary Birth of a Holy Mountain". California History 70 (2): 146–161.
• Skolnick, Sharon. (1989). Dreams of Tamalpais. San Francisco: Last Gasp. ISBN 0-86719-357-3

References

1. Algérie, les guides bleus, Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197
2. Kong Rei Mountain
3. Western Mountain Forest Reserve.
4. Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden
5. Clammer, Paul (2009). Morocco p.192. Lonely Planet. p. 536. ISBN 9781741049718.