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Sierra Nevada

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in Andalucia in the south east of . They are the tallest mountains in mainland Spain, rising to over 10,000 ft.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mulhacén and Alcazaba.

Peak
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, with an elevation of 3,479 metres, is the highest mountain in peninsular Spain and in all of the . It is part of the Sierra Nevada range in the .

Peak
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is a mountain in . Standing at 3,369 m, it is the third highest mountain of the Sierra Nevada range and the fifth in the .

Sierra Nevada

Latitude
37.072° or 37° 4′ 19″ north
Longitude
-3.3° or 3° 18′ west
Elevation
1,740 metres (5,709 feet)
Open location code
8C9R3MCX+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5171491021
Geo­Names ID
2513236
Wiki­data ID
Q26955
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Sierra Nevada” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل الثلج”
  • Arabic: “جبل شلير”
  • Arabic: “سييرا نيفادا”
  • Arabic: “شلير”
  • Aragonese: “Sierra Nevada (Espanya)”
  • Aragonese: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Armenian: “Սիեռա Նևադա”
  • Basque: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Belarusian: “Сьера-Невада”
  • Bengali: “সিয়েরা নেভাদা”
  • Breton: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Bulgarian: “Сиера Невада”
  • Catalan: “Serra Nevada”
  • Catalan: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Cebuano: “Sierra Nevada (kabukiran sa Espanya)”
  • Cebuano: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Chinese: “內華達山脈”
  • Czech: “Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada”
  • Czech: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Danish: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Dutch: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل الثلج”
  • Esperanto: “Montaro Nevado”
  • Esperanto: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Estonian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Finnish: “Sierra Nevada”
  • French: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Galician: “Parque Nacional de Serra Nevada”
  • Galician: “Serra Nevada”
  • Georgian: “სიერა-ნევადა (ესპანეთი)”
  • Georgian: “სიერა-ნევადა”
  • German: “Schneegebirge”
  • German: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Greek: “Σιέρρα Νεβάδα”
  • Hebrew: “סיירה נבדה”
  • Hungarian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Icelandic: “Sierra Nevada (Spánn)”
  • Icelandic: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Indonesian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Italian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Japanese: “シエラネバダ山脈”
  • Korean: “시에라네바다산맥”
  • Latvian: “Sjerranevada”
  • Lithuanian: “Siera Nevada”
  • Macedonian: “Сиера Невада”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sierra Nevada i Spania”
  • Norwegian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sierra Nevada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sierra”
  • Persian: “سیرا نوادا”
  • Polish: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Portuguese: “Serra Nevada (Espanha)”
  • Portuguese: “Serra Nevada”
  • Portuguese: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Romanian: “Sierra Nevada(Spania)”
  • Romanian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Russian: “Сьерра-Невада”
  • Serbian: “Sijera Nevada”
  • Serbian: “Сијера Невада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Slovak: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Slovenian: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Swahili: “Sierra Nevada, Hispania”
  • Swedish: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Turkish: “Sierra Nevada (İspanya)”
  • Ukrainian: “Андалузькі гори”
  • Ukrainian: “Сьєрра-Невада”
  • Urdu: “سیئرا نیواڈا (ہسپانیہ)”
  • Urdu: “سیئرا نیواڈا”
  • Venetian: “Siera Nevada”
  • Vietnamese: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Welsh: “Sierra Nevada”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیرا نیوادا”
  • Yakut: “Сьерра-Невада”

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