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The Sierra Nevada is part of the American Cordillera, an almost continuous chain of mountain ranges that forms the western "backbone" of the Americas. The Sierra runs 400 mi (640 km) north-south, and its width ranges from 50 mi (80 km) to 80 mi (130 km) across east–west. [ 3 ]
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, ... Clark Mountain Range: 7,933 ft 2418.1 m: 4,255 ft 1297 m: 29.1 mi
Mountain ranges of the Sierra Nevada — subranges of the mountain system in eastern California. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Mountain ranges of Northern California . It includes mountain ranges that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System.
List of mountains over 14,000 ft ... Cathedral Range; Clark Range; ... (a spur of the Sierra) extends into Nevada: Douglas County, Nevada;
The protected areas of the Sierra Nevada, a major mountain range located in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, are numerous and highly diverse.Like the mountain range itself, these areas span hundreds of miles along the length of the range, and over 14,000 feet of elevation from the lowest foothills to the summit of Mount Whitney.
End of winter snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountain range from 2020 through 2023. (NASA) In April 2020, snowpack was at 50% of average levels for April. In April 2021, the figure was 62%.
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.