Sierra
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Sierra (Spanish for mountain range and saw, from Latin serra) can refer to:
Mountains and mountain ranges
- Sierra mountains (disambiguation)
- Sierra de Juárez, mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
- Sierra Madre (disambiguation), various mountain ranges
Place names
- Sierra (Ecuador)
- Sierra (Peru)
- Sierra Bullones, Bohol, in the Philippines
- Sierra Madre (Philippines), a mountain range in the east of Luzon, Philippines
- Sierra County, California, in the north of the state
- Sierra de las Nieves, in Andalusia, Spain
- Sierra Leone, located on the coast of West Africa
- Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
- Sierra National Forest, in California, United States
- Sierra Nevada (Spain), in Andalusia, Spain
- Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain), in Andalusia, Spain
- Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela), a national park in the Andean Region of Venezuela
- Sierra Nevada Observatory, Granada, Spain
- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park in northern Colombia
- Sierra Sky Park Airport in Fresno, California
- High Sierra Trail, in California, United States
- Sierra Valley, in Plumas and Sierra counties
Organizations
- Sierra Bullets, an ammunition manufacturing company
- Sierra Club, an environmental organization in the United States
- Sierra (magazine), published by the Sierra Club
- Sierra Club Canada, an environmental organization in Canada
- Sierra Entertainment (formerly Sierra On-Line), a computer game company, subsidiary of Activision Blizzard
- PMC-Sierra, a semiconductor company
- Sierra Wireless, a wireless communications equipment manufacturer
People
In film and television
- Sierra (film), a 1950 Western starring Audie Murphy
- Sierra (Dollhouse), a character in Joss Whedon's TV series Dollhouse
- Sierra (TV series), a 1974–1975 NBC television show produced by Universal Studios
- Sierra, one of the main villains of The Land Before Time VII
- Sierra, a fictional character from the Canadian animated TV series Total Drama
Vehicles
- Acme Sierra, an American experimental aircraft built in 1948
- Advanced Aeromarine Sierra, glider
- Ford Sierra, a car produced by the Ford Motor Company
- GMC Sierra, a truck produced by General Motors
- Sierra class corvette, a ship class of the Mexican Navy
- Sierra-class submarine, a Russian attack nuclear submarine
- USS Sierra, 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
- Pacific sierra, Mexican sierra, or Scomberomorus sierra, a Spanish mackerel fish in the western Pacific Ocean
- Jamón serrano, Spanish for "Sierra ham"
- Sierra, the NATO phonetic alphabet designation for the letter S
- Sierra College, a community college located in Rocklin, California
- Sierra (group), American musical artists
- "Sierra" (Maddie & Tae song), a song by Maddie & Tae
- Sierra Mist, a soft drink
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, a California-based brewery
- Sierra Foothills AVA, an American Viticultural Area in California
See also
- Cera (disambiguation)
- Cerro (disambiguation)
- High Sierra (disambiguation)
- La Sierra (disambiguation)
- Serra (disambiguation)
- Serra (surname)
- Sierre, Switzerland
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