Sierra Nevada

[ see-er-uh nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh; Spanish syer-rah ne-vah-thah ]

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noun

a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4,420 meters).
a mountain range in S Spain. Highest peak, Mulhacén, 11,420 feet (3,480 meters).

Sierra Nevada

sɪˈɛərə nɪˈvɑːdə a mountain range in E California, parallel to the Coast Ranges. Highest peak: Mount Whitney, 4418 m (14 495 ft)
ˈsjɛrra neˈβaða a mountain range in SE Spain, mostly in Granada and Almería provinces. Highest peak: Cerro de Mulhacén, 3478 m (11 411 ft)

Sierra Nevada

Location of Mount Whitney , the highest peak in the United States outside of Alaska .

These companies include SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and more.

A ski and snowboard week held in the jagged Sierra Nevada mountain range.

The Sierra Nevada, in some places 13,000 feet in height, extends along the western boundary of the State.

Entered the seven mile Kanyon, which begins the real pass of the Sierra Nevada.

These are tellingly related in that classic volume, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."

That capital for the most part lies east of the Missouri and west of the Sierra Nevada.

According to my calculation it could not be more than three hundred miles to the Sierra Nevada, or about twenty days journey.

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