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Between Honduras and Guatemala, the frontier is formed by the Sierra de Merendón. A few of the streams of the Pacific slope actually rise in the highlands pushing through the Sierra Madre at the bottom of deep ravines. A large river, the Chixoy or Salinas River, flows northwards towards the Gulf of Mexico.
A map of Guatemala. Guatemala is mountainous, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén department. The country is located in Central America and bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the east by Belize and by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean.
The mountains' elevations range from 500 m (1,600 ft) to over 3,800 m (12,500 ft), and the range covers an area of c. 16,350 km 2 (6,310 sq mi). [1] With an area of 1,500 km 2 (580 sq mi) lying above 3,000 m (9,800 ft), it is also the most extensive highland region in Central America.
Article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Central America. This article defines Central America as the seven nations of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panamá. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Pages in category "Mountains of Guatemala"
Along just the Southern California coast, the cliffs could erode more than 130 feet by the end of the century if the sea keeps rising, according to recent projections by Barnard and his team.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
The giant structure is 5,249ft (1,600m) tall and covers 14 square km