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Sierra Madre Occidental
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Mountain range along the Pacific coast of Mexico
Key facts
- Peak
- Cerro Gordo
- Elevation
- 10,863 ft (3,311 m)
- Length
- 932 mi (1,500 km) NW × SE
- Width
- 150 mi (240 km) W × E
- Country
- Mexico
- State s
- Sonora , Chihuahua , Sinaloa , Durango , Zacatecas , Nayarit , Jalisco , Aguascalientes
- Region
- Northwestern Mexico
- Borders on
- Sea of Cortés – Pacific : W Altiplanicie Mexicana : E Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt : S ( Cordillera Neovolcanica )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Country
- Mexico
- Area
- 289000
- Elevation
- 10863
- Highest point
- Cerro Mohinora
- Image
- Sierra Madre Occidental.jpg
- Width
- 150
- Length
- 1250
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- Commons category
- Sierra Madre Occidental
- topic's main category
- Category:Sierra Madre Occidental
- mountain range
- Pacific Coast Ranges
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sierra Madre Occidental ('Western Sierra Madre') is a major mountain range system which runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the American Cordillera, an almost continuous chain of mountain ranges that forms the western "backbone" of the Americas.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sierra Madre Occidental” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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4 mapped locations