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Sierra Madre

(Spanish ˈsjɛrra ˈmaðre)
n
(Placename) (functioning as singular) the main mountain system of Mexico, extending for 2500 km (1500 miles) southeast from the N border: consists of the Sierra Madre Oriental in the east, the Sierra Madre Occidental in the west, and the Sierra Madre del Sur in the south. Highest peak: Citlaltépetl, 5636 m (18 492 ft) (disputed)
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Sier′ra Ma′dre

(ˈmɑ dreɪ)
n.
a mountain system in Mexico, comprising three ranges bordering the central plateau. Highest peak, Orizaba, 18,546 ft. (5653 m).
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Guerrillas from the New People's Army in formation during the 49th anniversary of the communist rebel group in Sierra Madre mountains. (Czar Dancel / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
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Zambrano and Krohn present a guide to the architecture of Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city, in the northeast along the Santa Catarina River at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains. After a brief tour of some modern residences, they describe and illustrate buildings in the city center: origin and first expansion, the east side and southeast expansion: a place of leisure, Obispado and northwest industrial expansion, and San Pedro: new business center and southwest expansion.
This environment will combine nature's serene beauty-in this case Cagayan's Sierra Madre mountains and some of the world's finest beaches-with wide bandwidth submarine cable landing points that are soon to be completed to ensure that the zone is firmly connected to the rest of the world.
The storm was to stall near the Sierra Madre Mountains, the centre said.
The world's most wanted criminal was said to be a "sitting duck" in the Sierra Madre mountains. Located in Mexico by CIA drones, mobile phone interception and satellites, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had finally been found.
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Yes, it is possible to see these Cuban Americans as self-interested cadres meeting in smoky cafes in Miami's Little Havana and remember the times before Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries swept down from the Sierra Madre mountains and tossed out the corrupt Fulgencio Battista regime and sent landowners and gangsters packing.