El Capitan
El Capitan is a peak in Culberson County, Texas, located within Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The 7th-highest peak in Texas at 8,085 ft, El Capitan is part of the Guadalupe Mountains, an exposed portion of a Permian period reef uplifted and exposed by tectonic activity during the late Cretaceous period.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,064 feet
- Description: mountain in Texas, United States
- Also known as: “El Capitán”, “El Capitan Peak”, “Guadalupe Point”, and “酋長巖”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guadalupe Peak and Guadalupe Pass.
Guadalupe Peak
Peak
Photo: Zereshk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guadalupe Peak, also known as Signal Peak, is the highest natural point in Texas, with an elevation of 8,751 feet above sea level. It is located in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and is part of the Guadalupe Mountains range in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas.
Guadalupe Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Guadalupe Pass is a mountain pass in Culberson County, Texas. It is located just outside of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas and is traversed by U.S. Highway 62-180 connecting El Paso, Texas with Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pine Springs.
Pine Springs
Hamlet
Pine Springs is an unincorporated community in northern Culberson County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000.
El Capitan
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Culberson, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.87734° or 31° 52′ 38″ northLongitude
-104.858° or 104° 51′ 29″ westElevation
8,064 feet (2,458 metres)Open location code
853QV4GR+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 356733656OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“El Capitan” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “El Capitan (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Texas)”
- Cebuano: “El Capitan”
- Chinese: “酋長岩 (德克薩斯州)”
- Chinese: “酋長岩”
- Chinese: “酋長巖 (德克薩斯州)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ال كاپيتان (امريكا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ال كاپيتان”
- French: “El Capitan”
- German: “El Capitan”
- Ladin: “El Capitan”
- Portuguese: “El Capitán”
- Russian: “Эль-Капитан”
- Spanish: “El Capitán (Texas)”
- Spanish: “El Capitan”
- Spanish: “El Capitán”
- Urdu: “ایل کیپٹن”
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