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Pico Duarte is the highest point in the Dominican Republic, the island of Hispaniola, and the entire Caribbean. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the islands of the Caribbean Sea. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Pico Duarte is the highest point in the Dominican Republic, the Island of Hispaniola, and the entire Caribbean.. This article comprises four sortable tables of major mountain summits [1] of the Caribbean that are the higher than any other point north or south of their latitude or east or west their longitude in the region.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola and in all the Caribbean.At 3,101 m (10,174 ft) above sea level, it gives Hispaniola the 16th-highest maximum elevation of any island in the world.
Denali is the highest mountain peak in North America. The Caribbean Plate and the Panama Plate, both of which share geological processes with the North American continent, have their own highest mountain peaks: [11] North America – Denali (6,194 m or 20,322 ft) Caribbean Plate – Acatenango Volcano (3,976 m or 13,045 ft) [22]
The following sortable table comprises the seven ultra-prominent summits on the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Each of these peaks has at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence . Five of these peaks rise on the island of Hispaniola (three in the Dominican Republic , and two in Haiti ) and one each on Jamaica and Cuba .
North Pacific Ocean and Caribbean sea level 4220 m 13,845 ft ⦁ Caribbean Pico Duarte, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic: 3098 m 10,164 ft Lago Enriquillo, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic: −45 m −148 ft: 3143 m 10,312 ft ⦁ South America Aconcagua, Argentina: 6960 m 22,835 ft Laguna del Carbón, Argentina: −105 m −344 ft
Cerro de Punta or Cerro Punta is the highest peak in Puerto Rico, rising to 1,338 meters (4,390 ft) above sea level. [note 1] The mountain is part of the Cordillera Central and is located on the town boundary between the municipalities of Ponce and Jayuya in the central region of the main island of Puerto Rico.