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Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), a stratovolcano on the boundary between the states of Puebla and Veracruz, is the highest mountain peak of Mexico. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Mexico. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Pitogo, officially the Municipality of Pitogo (Tagalog: Bayan ng Pitogo), is a municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 22,798 people. [3] Pitogo is 84 kilometers (52 mi) from Lucena and 214 kilometers (133 mi) from Manila.
The area is rich in biodiversity, with habitats such as mangroves, tropical forests, marshes, and sea with a coral reef. It is home to the jaguar, cougar, Baird's tapir, and West Indian manatee. Geographical features include cenotes (sinkholes) and petenes, tree islands emerging from the swamps. [7] Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of ...
Panglao Island, which is part of Bohol, has a similar soil composition found throughout Siquijor. With a land area of 343.5 square kilometres (132.6 sq mi) and a coastline 102 kilometres (63 mi) long, Siquijor is the third-smallest province of the Philippines, both in terms of population and land area, after Camiguin and Batanes. [4]
On 21 June 1969, RA 5864 was approved creating Pitogo as the 46th town of the province of Bohol with 23 regular barangays. [6] Eight years later on 27 October 1977, it was renamed by Presidential Decree 1228 in honour of President Carlos P. Garcia , [ 7 ] who was born in nearby Talibon .
Pico de Orizaba is located at 19°1′48″N 97°16′12″W, about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of the Gulf of Mexico and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Mexico City, on the border between the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
Tolantongo is a box canyon and resort located 17 kilometres from Ixmiquilpan on Route 27 in the Mezquital Valley, State of Hidalgo in Mexico, [1] [2] It is about 1.5 hours northwest of Pachuca and 198 km or three-to-four hours north of Mexico City. [1] The closest village to the resort is called El Cardonal and it is part of Cardonal ...
Ajusco is a lava dome complex of Pliocene-Pleistocene age, surrounded by block and ash flow deposits. [4] Ajusco is part of the mountain chain of volcanic origin known as Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin, among which Xitle (3,128 m or 10,262 ft), Tláloc (3,690 m or 12,106 ft), Pelado (3,620 m or 11,877 ft), Cuautzin (3,510 m or 11,516 ft) and Chichinautzin (3,470 m or 11,385 ft) stand out.