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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 .
Mount Darwin is the highest summit of the Evolution Peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Mount Tom in the Sierra Nevada. San Gorgonio Mountain is the highest summit of the San Bernardino Mountains and the third most topographically isolated California peak. Telescope Peak is the highest summit of the Panamint Range.
Geography of California. Appearance. Coordinates: 37°9′58″N119°26′58″W37.16611°N 119.44944°W. Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces. California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America. Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is among the most ...
Mesozoic. Type of rock. batholith and igneous. The Sierra Nevada (/ siˌɛrənɪˈvædə, - ˈvɑːd -/ see-ERR-ə nih-VA (H)D-ə) [ 6 ][ a ] 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 ...
Pontic Mountains – 1,000 km (620 mi) (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Eastern Sayan Mountains – 1,000 km (620 mi) Sierra Madre del Sur – 1,000 km (620 mi) (section of the North American Cordillera) Arakan /Rakhine Mountains – 950 km (590 mi) Hengduan Mountains – 900 km (560 mi) as a system of mountain ranges.
The San Bernardino Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in Southern California in the United States. [ 3 ] Situated north and northeast of San Bernardino and spanning two California counties, the range tops out at 11,503 feet (3,506 m) at San Gorgonio Mountain – the tallest peak in Southern California. [ 4 ]
Range coordinates. 41°49′59″N123°40′04″W / 41.83306°N 123.66778°W[ 4 ] The Siskiyou Mountains are a coastal subrange of the Klamath Mountains, and located in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States. They extend in an arc for approximately 100 miles (160 km) from east of Crescent City, California ...
Category:Mountain ranges of California. Mountain ranges of California in the Western United States. Category: Mountain ranges of Southern California — San Luis Obispo/Kern/San Bernardino and southward; see Southern California Counties. Category: Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert — subregion of Southern California; see Mojave Desert.