Definition of Sierra madre oriental

1. Noun. A mountain range in northeastern Mexico the runs parallel to the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sierra Madre Oriental

Siegle
Siena
Sienese
Sienna
Siennese
Sierpinski gasket
Sierpinski triangle
Sierra
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone monetary unit
Sierra Leonean
Sierra Leoneans
Sierra Leonian
Sierra Leonians
Sierra Madre Occidental
Sierra Madre Oriental
Sierra Miwok
Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Sierra lodgepole pine
Sierra plum
Sierra redwood
Sieur de LaSalle
Sievert
Sif
Sigaultian
Siggaard-Andersen nomogram
Sigmodon
Sigmodon hispidus
Sigmund Freud

Literary usage of Sierra madre oriental

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"THE sierra madre oriental The sierra madre oriental is a belt of folded mountains extending along the Gulf Coast from near the Rio Grande to Oaxaca. ..."

2. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... Arizona and New Mexico also grows at the southern end of the Sierra Madre Oriental in the states of San Luis Potosi, Queretaro (Zavala and Campos 1993). ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The sierra madre oriental consists of a broken chain of ranges extending along the eastern margin of the plateau from the great bend in the Rio Grande ..."

4. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"... anthesis March-April; Sierra Madre Occidental from central Chihuahua southward to the Central Cordillera, and in the sierra madre oriental 31a. ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... range is often distinguished as the Sierra Madre Occidental or Sierra Madre del Pacífico, while the eastern range is called the sierra madre oriental. ..."

6. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"The sierra madre oriental, on the east, runs nearly parallel to the Gulf of ... On the verge of the central plateau bordering the sierra madre oriental is ..."

7. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1906)
"... presents from below the aspect of mountains and is accordingly called Sierra Madre Oriental. In the southern topographic division, the trend of the ..."

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