Cerro de Punta
Cerro de Punta or Cerro Punta is the highest peak in Puerto Rico, rising to 1,338 meters above sea level. The mountain is part of the Cordillera Central and is located on the municipal boundary between Ponce and Jayuya in the central region of the main island of Puerto Rico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,338 metres
- Description: highest peak in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Cerro Punta” and “Point Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monte Jayuya and Piedra Blanca.
Monte Jayuya
Peak
Monte Jayuya is the second highest peak of Puerto Rico measuring 1,296 meters above sea level. The mountain is located in the Cordillera Central, on the border between the municipalities of Jayuya and Ponce.
Piedra Blanca
Peak
Piedra Blanca is the fourth highest peak of Puerto Rico measuring 4,042 feet above sea level. Piedra Blanca, which is Spanish for "white rock", is located in the Cordillera Central or Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, in the Veguitas barrio of Jayuya, close to Cerro de Punta and Cerro Rosa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jayuya.
Jayuya
Photo: Jailynnettemarie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jayuya is a mountain town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Cordillera Central mountainous region. Although a small town, Jayuya has many tourist attractions such as its historic downtown, coffee plantations, waterfalls, haciendas, indigenous sites and natural reserves.
Cerro de Punta
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Ponce, Porta Caribe, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.17223° or 18° 10′ 20″ northLongitude
-66.59172° or 66° 35′ 30″ westElevation
1,338 metres (4,390 feet)Open location code
77CM5CC5+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 357264882OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Cerro de Punta” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cerro de Punta”
- Cebuano: “Cerro de Punta (bukid sa Puerto Rico)”
- Cebuano: “Cerro de Punta”
- Czech: “Cerro de Punta”
- Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Portorika”
- Dutch: “Cerro de Punta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سيرو د پونتا”
- French: “Cerro de Punta”
- German: “Cerro de Punta”
- Italian: “Cerro de Punta”
- Italian: “Cerro Puntita”
- Japanese: “セロ・デ・プンタ”
- Japanese: “プンタ山”
- Ladin: “Cerro de Punta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cerro de Punta”
- Polish: “Cerro de Punta”
- Spanish: “Cerro de Punta (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Cerro de Punta”
- Spanish: “Cerro Punta (Puerto Rico)”
- Swahili: “Cerro de Punta”
- Swedish: “Cerro de Punta”
- Swedish: “Cerro Puntita”
- Ukrainian: “Серро-де-Пунта”
- Venetian: “Cerro de Punta”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cerro de Punta”. Photo: Ratzer1, CC BY-SA 3.0.