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In the west, Honduras' mountains blend into the mountain ranges of Guatemala. [1] The western mountains have the highest peaks, with the Pico Congolón at an elevation of 2,500 metres (8,202 ft) and the Cerro Las Minas at 2,850 m (9,350 ft). [ 1 ]
Mountain peak Country Mountain range Elevation Prominence ... Of these 25 peaks, nine are located in Honduras, four in Guatemala, four in El Salvador, three in ...
The mountain range has several different biomes and habitats, including cloud forests. The Cusuco National Park (Parque Nacional El Cusuco) is located on the Honduran side and protects an area spanning 23,440 hectares of temperate forest in the Merendón mountain range. The core zone is located at an altitude of 1,800 - 2,242 m.
Pages in category "Mountains of Honduras" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cayman Ridge;
Cerro Las Minas is the highest mountain in Honduras. Cerro Las Minas is located in the rugged and relatively isolated Lempira Department in the western part of the country. A Honduran national park, the Celaque National Park, was established in 1987 for the mountain and some 266 square kilometres (65,730 acres) of surrounding territory.
The Sierra Madre is a major mountain range in Central America.It is known as the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in Mexico. It crosses El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. . The Sierra Madre is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, and ...
Celaque National Park (formally in Spanish, Parque Nacional Montaña de Celaque) is a national park in Lempira Ocotepeque and Copán, western Honduras.It was established on 5 August 1987 and covers an area of 266.31 square kilometres. [1]
The Mountains' sedimentary cover blankets all of the province's foothills and plains, and all but a few portions of its mountain range. [24] [33] [31] The cover in the foothills and plains is predominantly composed of Cretacaeous marine strata to the south, west, and north, but this transitions into Quaternary alluvium to the east.