He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

* Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas,

* Dardanelles Cone, a mountain peak in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness of the Stanislaus National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, California

* C. l. ochropus: California Valley coyote – California west of the Sierra Nevada

Relief map Sierra Nevada ( Spain ) | Sierra Nevada

The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada.

With the consolidation, the city limits today extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

* California interior chaparral and woodlands: In central interior California surrounding the Central Valley, covering the foothills and lower slopes of the northeastern Transverse Ranges and the western Sierra Nevada range.

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

* Sierra Nevada creating the Great Basin Desert and northern Mojave Desert

Fire suppression impacts on postfire recovery of Sierra Nevada chaparral shrublands.

Category: Ecology of the Sierra Nevada

They were issued at the rate of $ 16, 000 per mile of tracked grade completed West of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Gabbro specimen ; Rock Creek Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada ( U. S .) | Sierra Nevada, California.

Close-up of gabbro specimen ; Rock Creek Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada, California.

Gabbro as a xenolith in a granite, eastern Sierra Nevada ( U. S .) | Sierra Nevada, Rock Creek Canyon, California.

Guinea has participated in both diplomatic and military efforts to resolve conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau, and contributed contingents of troops to peacekeeping operations in all three countries as part of ECOMOG, the Military Observer Group of ECOWAS.

Those Maroons, first shipped from Jamaica to Nova Scotia, eventually became part of the core of the Creole community of Sierra Leone.

The Sierra Madre range is the longest mountain range in the Philippines and lies in the Northeastern part of Luzon Island.

The oldest rocks are approximately 190 million years old ( Jurassic ) and are located at Sierra Bermeja in the southwest part of the island.

Sierra Leone played a significant part in modern African political liberty and nationalism, and became an independent nation in 1961.

Stevens took advantage of the dissatisfaction with the ruling SLPP among some prominent politicians from the Northern part of Sierra Leone to form the APC ; and Stevens used the Northern part of Sierra Leone as his political base.

The Kamajors, a group of traditional fighters mostly from the Mende ethnic group under the command of deputy Defence Minister Samuel Hinga Norman, remained loyal to President Kabbah and defended the Southern part Sierra Leone from the soldiers.

UN forces returned primary responsibility for security in the area around the capital to Sierra Leone's police and armed forces in September 2004 ; it was the last part of the country to be turned over.

The hoped-for initial operational capability date for peacekeeping slipped until late 2009, when a Sierra Leonean reconnaissance company was deployed to Darfur as part of UNAMID.

** Janeros ( lived in NW Chihuahua, SE Arizona and NE Sonora in the Animas Mountains, Florida Mountains, south into the Sierra San Luis, Sierra del Tigre, Sierra de Carcay, Sierra de Boca Grande, west beyond the Aros River to Bavispe, east along the Janos River and Casas Grandes River toward the Lake Guzmán in the northern part of the Guzmán Basin and traded at the presidio of Janos, likely called Dzilthdaklizhéndé-‘ Blue Mountain People ’, northern local group )

Friends of the Earth was founded in 1969 in the United States by David Brower after his split with the Sierra Club based in part on their reluctance to challenge the construction of nuclear power plants.

Half Dome, a granite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada batholith.

At one point, the Chibchas occupied part of what is now Panama and the high plains of the Eastern Sierra of Colombia.

Wasps and Sea Harriers played an active part in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict, while Lynx helicopters played an attack role against Iraqi patrol boats in the 1991 Gulf War and Commando Sea King HC4s as well as the Lynx HMA Mk 8 from HMS Argyll, assisted in suppressing rebel forces in Sierra Leone.

On November 20, 1998, Cendant announced the sale of its entire consumer software division to Paris-based Havas S. A. With this sale, Sierra became a part of Havas Interactive, the interactive entertainment division of the company.

The city's economy revolves largely around its harbor-occupying a part of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River in one of the world's largest natural deep water harbours.

In the eastern part of the state, below the Sierra Nevada, there is a series dry lake beds that were filled with water during the last ice age ( fed by ice melt from alpine glaciers but never directly affected by glaciation ; see pluvial ).

It continues to be a major part of the diet in Peru and Bolivia, particularly in the Andes Mountains highlands ; it is also eaten in some areas of Ecuador ( mainly in the Sierra ) and Colombia.

The mountain regions that rim the Meseta Central and are associated with it are the Sierra Morena, the Cordillera Cantábrica, and the Sistema Ibérico.

Forming the southern edge of the Meseta Central, the Sierra Morena merges in the east with the southern extension of the Sistema Iberico and reaches westward along the northern edge of the Rio Guadalquivir valley to join the mountains in southern Portugal.

The massif of the Sierra Morena extends northward to the Río Guadiana, which separates it from the Sistema Central.

The Sistema Penibético extends northeast from the southern tip of Spain, running parallel to the coast until it merges with the southern extension of the Sistema Ibérico near the Rio Júcar and with the eastern extension of the Sierra Morena.

The Andalusian Plain is bounded on the north by the Sierra Morena and on the south by the Sistema Penibético ; it to an apex in the east where these two mountain chains meet.

The source of the Tagus is the Fuente de García, in the Montes Universales, Sistema Ibérico, Sierra de Albarracín Comarca.

Separating the northern Meseta from the southern and from Castile – La Mancha and Madrid, the Sistema Central includes the Sierra de Gata and the Sierra de Gredos in the western half and the Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra de Ayllón in the eastern half.

The Sierra de la Demanda, the northwesternmost end of the Sistema Ibérico, is located in Burgos Province.

* Sierra Menera, Sistema Ibérico

Sierra de Gata is a mountain range in the Sistema Central, Spain.

** Sierra de Huétor, overlapping with the Sistema Penibético

That honor goes to Valdelinares ski resort located in the Sierra de Gúdar range of the Sistema Ibérico, in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain.