The Cerro de las Mitras (Spanish for “Miters' Hill”), is a
mountain and a
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
in the
Monterrey
Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...
,
San Pedro Garza García,
Santa Catarina and
García municipalities; state of
Nuevo León
Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...
,
México. The mountain is part of the
Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that f ...
, the summit reaches 2,058
MASL, and has 1,303 meters of prominence, the topographic isolation is about 14.48 km. The ridge is about 21 km long stretching east to west. The name comes from the resemblance of the peaks in the ridge with a bishop's
mitre.
The Cerro de las Mitras is a popular hiking destination despite its difficulty. Several quarries dedicated to the extraction of limestone to produce concrete operate in the mountain despite its protected area designation.
Image:Cerro de las mitras Monterrey Mexico 3.jpg, Cerro de las Mitras from Cerro de Chipinque
Image:Cerro de las mitras Monterrey Mexico 2.jpg, El Cerro de las Mitras from Cerro del Obispado
Image:Cerro de las mitras Monterrey Mexico.jpg, Cerro de las Mitras in 2006
Image:Avenida las mitras.jpg, Several streets in the Monterrey metropolitan area are named after Cerro de las Mitras
Image:Cerro de las mitras desde el Topo Chico.jpg, Cerro de las Mitras from Cerro del Topo Chico
See also
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Cerro de la Silla
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Cerro de Chipinque
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Cerro del Topo Chico
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Cerro del Obispado
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Cerro de la Loma Larga
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La Huasteca
References
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Mountains of Mexico
Landmarks in Monterrey
Landforms of Nuevo León