SIERRA Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

sierra

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as in cordillera

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Recent Examples of sierra Mallorca’s very own mountain range is perfect walking territory, boasting the famous Ruta de Pedra en Sec (Dry Stone Route), a 93-mile trail that runs the length of the sierra from Andratx to Pollença. — Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026 Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022 Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon. — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020 Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up. — Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017

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At least 5,000 people perished, most of them in La Guaira state, a strip of cities and slums crammed between the coastal cordillera and the Caribbean Sea, half an hour from Caracas.

— Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026
Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019

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This town sits at the crossing of the Columbia River Gorge and the Cascade mountain range, and it’s known as the windsurfing capital of the world.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Home to Ireland’s tallest mountain range, the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, the area takes these calming hues to towering heights.

— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2026

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The boy was spotted sitting on his own at a hut about 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea level – slightly more than halfway up the country’s tallest mountain – by a worker on Thursday, according to CNN’s affiliate TV Asahi.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Monday will see the riders tackle the first mountain stage of the 81st edition, a tough 174-kilometer (108-mile) route from Gruissan-Aude past the city of Perpignan before the climb to the ski resort of Font Romeu in the Pyrenees.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

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