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[[File:LaIndiaDormida.jpg|thumb|300px|"[[La India Dormida]]" (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in [[El Valle de Anton]], Panama.]]
'''The Sleeping 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 or deceased woman in the local tradition.
==Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"==
*Western [[United States]] (in all three cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
**[[Mount Susitna#Etymology|Mount Susitna]], near [[Anchorage, Alaska]]
**[[Mount Timpanogos#Folklore|Mount Timpanogos]], near [[Provo, Utah]]<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/tica/learn/historyculture/the-legend-of-timpanogos.htm The Legend of Timpanogos] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707033819/https://www.nps.gov/tica/learn/historyculture/the-legend-of-timpanogos.htm |date=2018-07-07 }}</ref>
**[[Mount Tamalpais#Etymology and cultural history|Mount Tamalpais]], near [[San Francisco, California]].
*[[Algeria]]: [[Mount Chenoua]], according to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining [[pregnant woman]].<ref>''Algérie, les [[Guide Bleu|guides bleus]]'', Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197</ref>
*[[Cambodia]]: [[Phnom Kong Rei]].<ref>[http://picasaweb.google.com/105118955749102400357/KampongChhnang#5011194486340177538 Kong Rei Mountain]</ref>
*[[Chile]], in the Andes, Valle del Maipo Chile.
*[[China]]:
**[[Sleeping Beauty, Kunming|Sleeping Beauty Range]] (睡美人山) near [[Kunming]].<ref>[http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/KimSmith/PhotosSketches/Kunming/p_a001.htm Western Mountain Forest Reserve.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220054954/http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/KimSmith/PhotosSketches/Kunming/p_a001.htm |date=2015-02-20 }}</ref>
**[[Mount Danxia|Sleeping Beauty, Danxia]] near [[Shaoguan]] city.<ref>[http://www.danxiashan.org.cn/html/2013/dxmw_0917/2667.html Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221050935/http://www.danxiashan.org.cn/html/2013/dxmw_0917/2667.html |date=2015-02-21 }}</ref>
*[[Leonidio]], in Arcadia, Peloponnese Greece.
*[[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.
*[[Pakistan]]: Sleeping Beauty of Quetta. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan.
*[[Panama]], ''La India Dormida'' (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in [[El Valle de Anton]].
*[[Peru]], ''La Bella Durmiente'' (The Sleeping Beauty) in Tingo María
*[[Philippines]]: [[Sleeping Beauty, Kalinga|Sleeping Beauty]], mountain in [[Kalinga (province)|Kalinga]] province, northern Philippines.
*[[Mount Makiling]], mountain in [[Laguna (province)|Laguna]], Philippines.
*[[Taiwan]]: [[Mount Guanyin (New Taipei)|Mount Guanyin]], in [[New Taipei City]] [[Taiwan]].
*[[Thailand]]:
**[[Doi Nang Non]] in the [[Daen Lao Range]], northern Thailand.
**[[Khao Nang Non]] in [[Nakhon Si Thammarat province]], southern Thailand.
===Similarly named mountains===
*[[La Noyée]] (drowned lady). A mountain range seen from [[Notre-Dame-des-Monts]], [[Quebec]]. Local legend says the mountains are the silhouette of a [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|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'' ({{langx|es|la Mujer Muerta}}), because from the direction of [[Ceuta]], around the town of [[Benzú]], it resembles a woman on her back.<ref name=clammer192>{{cite book|last=Clammer|first=Paul|title=Morocco p.192|year=2009|publisher=Lonely Planet|pages=536|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kkl5d8NRCOEC&dq=Jebel+Musa+morocco|isbn=9781741049718}}</ref>
* The [[Virgin Gorda]]; [[Spanish language|Spanish]] for ''the fat virgin'', as the island looks like an overweight woman lying on her side.
==Ranges by the name of The Sleeping or the Dead Lady==
{|
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|[[Image:Sleeping Lady dusk.jpg|thumb|280px|Sleeping Lady from [[Anchorage, Alaska]] at dusk ]]
|[[Image:Valle del Moros.JPG|thumb|390px|View of [[La Mujer Muerta]], "the dead woman", [[Segovia Province|Segovia]], [[Spain]].]]
|[[File:Bella Durmiente TM-Peru-1.jpg|thumb|280px|View of [[Pumarinri (Huánuco)|Pumarinri]] ''(La Bella Durmiente)'' in [[Peru]].]]
|}
==See also==
*[[Breast-shaped hill]]
*[[Dead woman (disambiguation)|Dead woman]]
*[[Northumberlandia]]
==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)
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Robertson | first1 = David | year = 1991 | title = Mt. Tamalpais: The Legendary Birth of a Holy Mountain | journal = California History | volume = 70 | issue = 2| pages = 146–161 }}
* Skolnick, Sharon. (1989). ''Dreams of Tamalpais''. San Francisco: Last Gasp. {{ISBN|0-86719-357-3}}
==References==
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