Spanish Peaks
The Spanish Peaks are a pair of prominent mountains located in southwestern Huerfano County, Colorado. The Comanche people call them Huajatolla or Wa-ha-toy-yah meaning "double mountain" The two peaks, East Spanish Peak at elevation 12,688 feet and West Spanish Peak at elevation 13,631 feet, are east of, and separate from, the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,570 feet
- Description: mountain in Las Aminas and Huerfano counties in Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “East Spanish Peak”, “Wahatoya”, and “West Spanish Peak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Spanish Peak.
West Spanish Peak
Peak
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West Spanish Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit that is the higher of the two Spanish Peaks in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 13,631-foot peak is located in the Spanish Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.1 miles south of the Town of La Veta, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Huerfano and Las Animas counties.
Spanish Peaks
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Huerfano, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.37662° or 37° 22′ 36″ northLongitude
-104.97493° or 104° 58′ 30″ westElevation
13,570 feet (4,136 metres)Open location code
859Q92GG+J2OpenStreetMap ID
node 358952281OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Spanish Peaks” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Spanish Peaks (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Spanish Peaks”
- Dutch: “Spanish Peaks”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سپانيش پياكس”
- Japanese: “スパニッシュ・ピークス”
- Ladin: “Spanish Peaks”
- Slovenian: “Spanish Peaks”
- Spanish: “Huajatolla”
- Spanish: “Picos Españoles”
- Urdu: “سپینش پیکس”
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