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Housing Units (2000): 4923
Land area (2000): 3.002680 sq. miles (7.776905 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005330 sq. miles (0.013805 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.008010 sq. miles (7.790710 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71806
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.164806 N, 118.050907 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 91024
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Headwords:
Sierra Madre
Wikipedia
Sierra Madre (Spanish for "mother mountain range") may refer to one of several mountain ranges:
- In Mexico:
- Sierra Madre Occidental, a mountain range in northwestern Mexico and southern Arizona
- Sierra Madre Oriental, a mountain range in northeastern Mexico
- Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, a mountain range in south-central Mexico
- Sierra Madre del Sur, a mountain range in southern Mexico
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas, a mountain range which extends from southeastern Mexico
- In Central America:
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas, the continuation of this mountain range crossing southern Guatemala, northern El Salvador, and western Honduras
- In the Philippines:
- Sierra Madre (Philippines), a mountain range on Luzon island
- In the United States:
- Sierra Madre Mountains (California), a mountain range in the state of California
- Sierra Madre, California, a town in Los Angeles County located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains
- Sierra Madre Range (Wyoming), a mountain range in the south central portion of the state
The Sierra Madre was a Pacific Electric interurban line which ran from the Pacific Electric Building in Los Angeles to Sierra Madre. The line opened to Pasadena on March 19, 1904, and was extended to Sierra Madre in 1906; it closed on October 6, 1950.
The Sierra Madre Mountains is the longest mountain range in the Philippines. Running in the north-south direction from the provinces of Cagayan to the north and Quezon to the south, the mountains form the eastern backbone of Luzon Island, the largest island of the archipelago. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east. The Pacific coast of Luzon along the Sierra Madre is less developed as the lofty and continuous mountains forms a bold and an almost inaccessible shore, exposed to the full force of the northeast monsoon and the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Some of communities east of the mountain range and along the coast are so remote they are only accessible by plane or boat.
The Quezon Protected Landscape is situated at the southern part of the range.
Usage examples of "sierra madre".
Even they, lowest of the low, incapable or unwilling to go against the formidable odds when attempting to produce High Art, understood that Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The 400 Blows and La Str ada and King Kong-- by chance or intent -- transcended the callow commercial goals set by the secret cabal of Schlock Entrepreneurs and Anal Retentive Intellectuals.
In one part of the historical novel he was finishing, a young Mixtec priest from Mitla flees all the way down the long slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur to the Pacific coast a hundred and fifty miles away.
Yet he felt more apprehension now than he'd felt even in a Raruana village, piled with corpses infected with dengue fever, or during the outbreak of bubonic plague in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Three-quarters of the ghost towns of the Sierra Madre were ghost towns still, even after three hundred years.
Amaru's tone reminded him of the Mexican bandit who tried to coax Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart, and Tim Holt from their gold diggings in the motion picture Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Ahead, in the hazy distance, lay the Sierra Madre, at this time of day enrobed in regal purple.
We were riding in the lower foothills of the Sierra Madre now, and while the ridges were covered with pines, the lower slopes were a lush growth of maple, juniper, oak, and willow, with a thick underbrush of rose and hackberry.
They want to attack them right in their stronghold in the Sierra Madre .
For three years I was an Apache, then I stole a pony and rode out of the Sierra Madre and back to Texas.
Once over land, the front was forced to rise above the Sierra Madre Oriental, where the moist air of the higher altitudes condensed in great thunderheads over the mountains.
So he did not linger in that border-town long, but went west over the Sierra Madre Occidental with a mule-train to recover the last of the goods they’.
Before casing his binoculars, Tommy swung them in a 360-degree sweep of the horizon, pausing to admire familiar landmarks of past hikes-soaring peaks named Tepusquet, Manzanita, San Rafael, Little and Big Pine, Madulce, along with the major upthrusts of the Hurricane Deck ridge and the Sierra Madre and San Rafael ranges.
If he got away across the malpais into the Sierra Madre they must just as well forget him.
Once in the Sierra Madre, in Chihuahua, he had even crawled into the den of a grizzly bear.
That's a small town in the northern foothills of the Sierra Madre, to.