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The Spanish name sierra madre means "mother mountain range" in English, and occidental means "western", these thus being the "Western mother mountain range". [1] To the east, from the Spanish oriental meaning "eastern" in English, the Sierra Madre Oriental range or "Eastern mother mountain range" runs generally parallel to the Sierra Madre Occidental along eastern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Sierra Madre Occidental run north to south in western Mexico from the center of the country towards the United States border. The Sierra Madre Occidental is Mexico's largest range, and the ecoregion extends approximately 1,200 kilometers from southern Arizona to northern Jalisco. [4] The highest peak is Cerro Mohinora (3300 m) in southern ...
Sierra Madre Occidental — the primary mountain range of coastal northwestern Mexico. The Physiographic province (geology) is a part of the North American Cordillera system. The main article for this category is Sierra Madre Occidental .
Copper Canyon (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) is a group of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico that is 65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi) in size.
Pines and oaks coexist in the Nealtican Malpaís (Tianguismanalco, Puebla). The Madrean pine–oak woodlands are found at higher elevations in Mexico's major mountain ranges, the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, the Sierra Madre del Sur, the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, the Peninsular Ranges of the Baja California Peninsula.
The sky islands were isolated from one another and from the pine–oak woodlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental to the south by the warming and drying of the climate since the ice ages. There are approximately 27 Madrean sky islands in the United States, and 15 in northern Mexico.
Sierra Madre Occidental: 3308 m 10,853 ft: 858 m 2,815 ft: 231 km 143.5 mi 14 Sierra la Madera [56] Coahuila ...
Landforms of the Sierra Madre Occidental — a major mountain range system in Mexico, and of the North American Cordillera. The range runs northwest/southeast through northwestern and western Mexico. Many of its watersheds drain into the Gulf of California and Pacific Ocean .