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Sierra Madre del Sur

American  
[see-er-uh mah-drey del soor, syer-ah mah-thre thel soor] / siˈɛr ə ˈmɑ dreɪ dɛl ˈsʊər, ˈsyɛr ɑ ˈmɑ ðrɛ ðɛl ˈsur /

noun

  1. a plateau mountain range in Guerrero and Oaxaca states, S Mexico. Highest peak 12,149 feet (3,703 meters).


Example Sentences

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There are few other sources of income in this sweeping valley, a rolling expanse of subsistence farms framed by the peaks of the Sierra Madre del Sur.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023

The thumb-size short-crested coquette is found only in the forest edge along a roughly 15-mile stretch of road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain in southern Mexico.

From National Geographic • Apr. 18, 2018

Acapulco, set on a bay surrounded by high rises and the Sierra Madre del Sur, used to attract Hollywood stars and Mexico’s elite.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Lucio Caba�as, 37, Mexican guerrilla and folk hero; of wounds suffered in a gun battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three new frogs of the genus Hyla from the Sierra Madre del Sur of M�xico.

From Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America by Duellman, William E.

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