List of mountains named The Sleeping Lady
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"La India Dormida" (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton, Panama.
The Sleeping Woman, sometimes also The Dead Woman, is a name or nickname for certain mountain formations located in different places in the world that are said to look like a reclining woman in the local tradition.
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Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"
- Western United States (in both cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
- Algeria: Mount Chenoua, according to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman.[1]
- Cambodia: Phnom Kong Rei.[2]
- China:
- Sleeping Beauty Range (睡美人山) near Kunming.[3]
- Sleeping Beauty, Danxia near Shaoguan city.[4]
- Martinique: Morne Larcher (Larcher Hill) called " la femme couchée" (the sleeping woman) is located in Diamant, Martinique.
- Mexico: Iztaccíhuatl
- Norway: Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as Skjomtind, a mountain range near Narvik, Norway.
- Peru: Pumarinri (Quechua for "cougar ear") or La Bella Durmiente (Spanish for Sleeping Beauty) a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman in Tingo Maria National Park, José Crespo Y Castillo District.
- Philippines: Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines.
- Thailand: Doi Nang Non in the Daen Lao Range.
- Pakistan: Kohat valley mountain. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan.
- Panama, La India Dormida (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton.
Similarly named mountains
- La Noyée (the drowned lady). A mountain range seen from Notre-Dame-des-Monts, Quebec. Local legend says the mountains are the silhouette of a Native American woman who drowned while swimming across Lac Nairne to meet her lover.
- La Mujer Muerta (the dead woman). A mountain range located in the Sistema Central, Spain. Highest point La Pinareja, 2197 m.
- Turó de la Dona Morta (Dead Woman hill), a mountain near Maçanet de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain
- Jebel Musa (Morocco) the mountain is also known as The Dead Woman (Spanish: la Mujer Muerta), because from the direction of Ceuta, around the town of Benzú, it resembles a woman on her back.[5]
Ranges by the name of The Sleeping or the Dead Lady
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Sleeping Lady from Anchorage, Alaska at dusk
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See also
Further reading
- Dixon, Ann. (1994). The Sleeping Lady. Anchorage, AK : Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 0-88240-444-X (hardbound) ISBN 0-88240-495-4 (paperback)
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- Skolnick, Sharon. (1989). Dreams of Tamalpais. San Francisco: Last Gasp. ISBN 0-86719-357-3
References
- ↑ Algérie, les guides bleus, Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197
- ↑ Kong Rei Mountain
- ↑ Western Mountain Forest Reserve.
- ↑ Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden
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This set index article includes a list of mountains that share the same name (or similar names).
