Sierra (Spanish for " mountain range" and " saw", from Latin ''

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'') may refer to the following:

Places

Mountains and mountain ranges

* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range in Andalusia, Spain *

Sierra Madre (disambiguation) Sierra Madre (Spanish, 'mother mountain range') may refer to: Places and mountains Mexico *Sierra Madre Occidental, a mountain range in northwestern Mexico and southern Arizona *Sierra Madre Oriental, a mountain range in northeastern Mexico * ...

, various mountain ranges ** Sierra Madre (Philippines), a mountain range in the east of Luzon, Philippines * Sierra mountains (disambiguation) *

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...

, a mountain range in the U.S. states of California and Nevada * Sierra Nevada (Spain), a mountain range in Andalusia, Spain * Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra Maestra, a mountain range in Cuba

Other places

Africa

* Sierra Leone, a country located on the coast of West Africa

Asia

* Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippines

Europe

* Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain), Andalusia, Spain * Sierra Nevada Observatory, Granada, Spain

North America

High Sierra Trail The High Sierra Trail (HST) is a hiking trail in Sequoia National Park, California. The trail crosses the Sierra Nevada from west to east. According to the Yosemite Decimal System, the HST is a Class 1/Class 2 trail, which means simple scr ...

, California, United States * Sierra County, California * Sierra County, New Mexico * Sierra Foothills AVA, an American Viticultural Area in California * Sierra National Forest, California, United States *

Sierra Sky Park Airport Sierra Sky Park Airport is a privately owned, public-use airport northwest of the central business district of Fresno, a city in Fresno County, California, United States. Other area airports are Fresno Chandler Executive Airport and Fresno Yos ...

, Fresno, California * Sierra Valley, in Plumas and Sierra counties, California

South America

* Sierra (Ecuador), the mountain region of Ecuador * Sierra (Peru), the mountain region of Peru * Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a national park in northern Colombia * Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela), a national park in the Andean Region of Venezuela

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Sierra (''Dollhouse''), a character in Joss Whedon's TV series ''Dollhouse'' * Sierra, a character in ''The Land Before Time VII'' * Sierra Obenauer, a character from the Canadian animated TV series '' Total Drama'' * Sierra Burgess, the titular character in the Netflix movie '' Sierra Burgess Is a Loser'' * Sierra McCoy, a character of Josie in the TV series '' Riverdale''

Music

* Sierra (group), American musical artists *

Sierra (metal band) Sierra is a Canadian progressive metal band formed in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Their music fuses elements of progressive rock, heavy metal, and instrumental music. Sierra have been touring since 2012, opening for bands such as Weedeater, T ...

, Canadian progressive rock band * "Sierra" (song), a song by Maddie & Tae * "Sierra", a song by Cursive from the 2003 album '' The Ugly Organ'' * "Sierra", a song by Boz Scaggs on 1994's ''

Some Change ''Some Change'' is an album by the American musician Boz Scaggs, released in 1994. Critical reception ''Entertainment Weekly'' deemed the album "a competent snooze for closet New Age fans." AllMusic's retrospective review called ''Some Change'' ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Sierra'' (film), a 1950 Western starring Audie Murphy * ''Sierra'' (magazine), published by the Sierra Club * ''Sierra'' (TV series), a 1974–1975 NBC television show produced by Universal Studios * Sierra Entertainment, a defunct developer and publisher of video games

Computing

Sierra (supercomputer) Sierra or ATS-2 is a supercomputer built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for use by the National Nuclear Security Administration as the second Advanced Technology System. It is primarily used for predictive applications in stock ...

, or ATS-2, a supercomputer for nuclear weapon simulations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Sierra, a library management system developed by Innovative Interfaces *

macOS Sierra macOS Sierra (version 10.12) is the thirteenth major release of macOS (formerly known as and ), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. The name "macOS" stems from the intention to uniform the operating syste ...

, the thirteenth major release of the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., formerly known as Mac OS X and OS X

Organizations

Sierra Club The Sierra Club is an environmental organization with chapters in all 50 United States, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who be ...

, an environmental organization in the United States * Sierra Club Canada, an environmental organization in Canada * Sierra College, a community college located in Rocklin, California

Transportation

Acme Sierra The Acme Aircraft Co S-1 Sierra was an experimental aircraft of unusual configuration built in the US in 1948 to investigate the advantages of a pusher propeller configuration. Apart from this engine installation, the aircraft was unusual in havi ...

, an American experimental aircraft built in 1948 * Advanced Aeromarine Sierra, a glider * Ford Sierra, a car produced by the Ford Motor Company * GMC Sierra, various trucks and SUVs produced by General Motors * , a ship class of the Mexican Navy * , a Russian attack nuclear submarine * , the name of more than one United States Navy ship * , a United States Navy attack cargo ship named SS ''Sierra'' from 1947 to 1961 while in commercial service

Other uses

* Sierra (name) * Sierra (retailer), an off-price retailer formerly known as Sierra Trading Post *

Pacific sierra The Pacific sierra (''Scomberomorus sierra'') also known as the Mexican sierra, is a ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, better known as the mackerel Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic ...

or Mexican sierra (species ''Scomberomorus sierra''), a Spanish mackerel fish * PMC-Sierra, a semiconductor company * Sierra, the NATO phonetic alphabet designation for the letter S