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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.
The highest mountains above sea level are generally not the highest mountains above the surrounding terrain, also called the highest free-standing mountains. There is no precise definition of surrounding base, but Denali, [2] Mount Kilimanjaro [3] and Nanga Parbat [4] are possible candidates for the tallest mountain on land by this measure.
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]
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.
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 .
The Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Dominican Republic and in all of the Caribbean, running through the center of the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles. [2] It is connected to the Massif du Nord mountain range in Haiti.