Chisos Mountains
The Chisos Mountains, also known as the Chisos, are a mountain range located in the Big Bend area of the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, United States. The mountain system covers 40 square miles and is contained entirely within the boundaries of Big Bend National Park, making it the only mountain range in the United States fully contained within a national park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Emory Peak and Casa Grande Peak.
Emory Peak
Peak
Photo: Leaflet, Public domain.
Emory Peak, located in Big Bend National Park, is the highest peak in the Chisos Mountains and the highest in Brewster County. The peak is named for William H.
Casa Grande Peak
Peak
Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Casa Grande Peak is a 7,325-foot-elevation mountain summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States.
Chisos Mountains
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 5,564 feet
- Description: mountain range in the US state of Texas
- Category: landform
- Location: Brewster, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.24731° or 29° 14′ 50″ northLongitude
-103.30222° or 103° 18′ 8″ westElevation
5,564 feet (1,696 metres)Open location code
75XR6MWX+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 8228842432OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Chisos Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال تشيزوس”
- Catalan: “muntanyes Chisos”
- Cebuano: “Chisos Mountains”
- Chinese: “奇索斯山脉”
- Czech: “Chisos Mountains”
- Dutch: “Chisos Mountains”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال تشيزوس”
- French: “Chisos Mountains”
- French: “monts Chisos”
- French: “Monts Chisos”
- German: “Chisos Mountains”
- Hebrew: “הרי צ’יסוס”
- Hungarian: “Chisos-hegység”
- Italian: “Chisos”
- Italian: “Monti Chisos”
- Japanese: “チソス山脈”
- Ladin: “Chisos Mountains”
- Lithuanian: “Chisos kalnų baseinas”
- Lithuanian: “Čisoso kalnai”
- Spanish: “Montañas Chisos”
- Spanish: “Montes Chisos”
- Spanish: “Sierra de Chisos”
- Ukrainian: “Чисос”
- Venetian: “Monti Chisos”
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