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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 Oriental (Spanish: [ˈsjera ˈmaðɾe oɾjenˈtal] ⓘ) is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico.The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America, and Antarctica.
The Sierra Madre Oriental — the primary north/south mountain range along the east coast of Mexico. Map of major Mexican mountain ranges: Sierra Madre Oriental (right), Sierra Madre Occidental , Sierra Madre del Sur , and east-west Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt .
Sierra Madre Oriental: 3715 m 12,188 ft: 1410 m 4,626 ft: 628 km 390 mi 17 Cerro el Nacimiento [36] [37] [t] ... Sierra Madre Occidental: 3357 m 11,014 ft: 1387 m
Sierra Madre Occidental, the other major Mexican ranges, and the Mexican Plateau. Sierra Madre Occidental — the primary mountain range of coastal northwestern Mexico. The Physiographic province (geology) is a part of the North American Cordillera system.
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 .
In Mexico, the Cordillera continues through the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental, as well as the backbone mountains of the Baja California peninsula. The Cordillera carries on through the mountain ranges of Central America in Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Costa Rica , and Panama , and becomes the Andes Mountains of South ...
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.