Peak of Tarquin
Pico Turquino, sometimes erroneously spelled as Pico Torquino, is the highest point in Cuba. It is located in the southeast part of the island, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range in the municipality of Guamá, Santiago de Cuba Province.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,974 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Montaña Turquino”, “Mount Pico Turquino”, “Nejvyšší hora Kuby”, “Pico Real de Turquino”, “Pico Real del Turquino”, “Pico Turquina”, “Pico Turquino”, “Piko Real de Turkino”, “Piko Turkinas”, “Reala Pico Turquino”, “Turquino”, “Пик Туркиньо”, “Пико Туркиньо”, “Пико-Туркино”, and “Туркиньо”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sierra Maestra National Park.
Sierra Maestra National Park
Sierra Maestra Gran National Park, also known as Pico…Peak of Tarquin
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Guama, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
19.98971° or 19° 59′ 23″ north
Longitude
-76.83584° or 76° 50′ 9″ west
Elevation
1,974 metres (6,476 feet)
Open location code
77F5X5Q7+VM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Peak of Tarquin” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Տուրկինո”
- Asturian: “Picu Turquino”
- Basque: “Pico Turquino”
- Belarusian: “Пік Туркіна”
- Catalan: “Pic Turquino”
- Cebuano: “Pico Turquino”
- Chinese: “图基诺峰”
- Chinese: “圖基諾峰”
- Czech: “Pico Turquino”
- Dutch: “Pico Turquino”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پيكو توركوينو”
- Esperanto: “Pico Turquino”
- Estonian: “Pico Turquino”
- French: “Pico Turquino”
- Galician: “Pico Turquino”
- Georgian: “ტურკინო”
- German: “Pico Turquino”
- Hebrew: “פיקו טורקינו”
- Hungarian: “Pico Turquino”
- Italian: “Pico Turquino”
- Japanese: “トゥルキーノ山”
- Ladin: “Pico Turquino”
- Lithuanian: “Turkino kalnas”
- Macedonian: “Пико Туркино”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pico Turquino”
- Norwegian: “Pico Turquino”
- Persian: “قله تورکینو”
- Polish: “Pico Turquino”
- Portuguese: “Pico Turquino”
- Russian: “пик Туркино”
- Russian: “Пик Туркино”
- Russian: “Туркино”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pico Turquino”
- Slovak: “Pico Turquino”
- Slovenian: “Pico Turquino”
- Spanish: “Pico Real”
- Spanish: “Pico Turquino”
- Swahili: “Pico Turquino”
- Swedish: “Pico Turquino”
- Ukrainian: “Пік Туркино”
- Ukrainian: “Туркіно”
- Venetian: “Pico Turquino”
- Vietnamese: “Pico Turquino”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Las Cuevas and La Platica.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Paso de las Angustias and Pico Cuba.
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Worth a closer look: Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
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