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Definition of Sierra madre oriental
1. Noun. A mountain range in northeastern Mexico the runs parallel to the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sierra Madre Oriental
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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