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Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola and in all the Caribbean. At 3,101 m (10,174 ft) above sea level, it gives Hispaniola the 16th-highest maximum elevation of any island in the world .
Pico Duarte is the highest point in the Dominican Republic, the Island of Hispaniola, and the entire Caribbean.. This article comprises four sortable tables of major mountain summits [1] of the Caribbean that are the higher than any other point north or south of their latitude or east or west their longitude in the region.
Pico Duarte is the highest summit of the Dominican Republic, the Island of Hispaniola, and the entire Caribbean. The following sortable table comprises the seven ultra-prominent summits on the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Each of these peaks has at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence.
Pico Duarte, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic: 3098 m 10,164 ft Lago Enriquillo, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic: −45 m −148 ft: 3143 m 10,312 ft ⦁ South America Aconcagua, Argentina: 6960 m 22,835 ft Laguna del Carbón, Argentina: −105 m −344 ft: 7065 m 23,179 ft ⦁ Oceania: Puncak Jaya, Indonesia: 4884 m 16,024 ft Lake Eyre, Australia
World peaks with 4000 meters of prominence from peakbagger.com; World top 50 most prominent peaks, originally compiled by David Metzler and Eberhard Jurgalski, and updated with the help of others as new elevation information, especially SRTM, has become available. World top 100 most prominent peaks, from the same authors as the top 50.
The Cordillera Central is home to the highest peaks in the Caribbean: Pico Duarte (3,098 m or 10,164 ft) (the highest point in the Caribbean), [3] La Pelona (3,094 m or 10,150 ft) and La Rucilla (3,049 m or 10,003 ft).
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
The Cordillera Central mountain range is located within El Cibao, containing the highest peak in all of the Caribbean, Pico Duarte. Two of the largest rivers of the country are also located inside this region: the Yaque del Norte, the largest river of the Dominican Republic, and the Yuna river. Both of these rivers contain several chains of ...