What are the names of all the major mountain ranges in California that are oriented in a longitudinal northeast-to-southwest direction?

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None of the mountain ranges in California are oriented in a northeast to southwest direction. However, there are mountain ranges in California that are arranged in a northwest to southeast direction. Those would be the Cascade Range, the Sierra Nevada, and the Coastal Ranges.

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