Highest Points of Mexico States

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Highest Points of the 31 States of Mexico

The following list was compiled by Andy Martin in 1991 and is published in his book "County Highpoints." See his notes below.

Additional resources.

The definitive online source for Mexico state highpoints is xpmexico which lists the highest points of each state as well a other info. It is in both English and Spanish.

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Rank	State	Abbrev	High Point	Meters	Feet	Certainity
23	Aguascalientes	AGU	unnamed peak 2.6 km west if BM Ardilla	3,050	10,010	B
22	Baja California Norte	BCN	2 unnamed points 3.8 km north of Cerros la Botella Azul (named Cerro de la Encantada or Picacho del Diablo on other maps)	3,100	10,170	A
27	Baja California Sur	BCS	in Sierra la Laguna	2,080	6,820	B
29	Campeche	CAM	3 unnamed points 2.5 km west of Laguna Champerico.	390	1,280	C
6	Chiapas	CHH	Volcan Tacana	4,080	13,428	A
18	Chihuahua	CHP	Cerro Mohinora	3,300	10,663	B
10	Coahuila	COA	Cerro San Rafael	3,700	12,306	B
9	Colima	COL	Volcan de Colima, 2 points	3,820	12,530	B*
7	Distrito Federal	DIF	Volcan Ajusco (highest peak is Cerro La Cruz del Marquez), 2 points	3,930	12,890	A
17	Durango	DUR	Cerro Gordo	3,340	10,991	B
19	Guanajuato	GRO	N. Slope of C. el Zamorano	3,300	10,830	C*
13	Guerrero	GUA	Cerro Tiotepec, 2 points	3,540	11,650	A
14	Hidalgo	HID	Cerro El Rosario	3,440	11,290	C*
5	Jalisco	JAL	Nevado de Colima	4,260	13,980	A
2	Mexico	MEX	Volcan Popocatepetl	5,400	17,930	A
8	Michoacan	MIC	Cerro Tancitaro	3,840	12,660	A
3	Morelos	MOR	on Volcan Popocatepetl	5,400	17,930	B*
25	Nayarit	NAY	unnamed peak 1.1 km northeast of Cerro del Veja in isolated country 4 km west of La Yesca village	2,780	9,000	B
11	Nuevo Leon	NLE	Cerro el Potosi	3,700	12,182	C
12	Oaxaca	OAX	Cerro el Nacimiento, 2 points	3,700	12,300	B
1	Puebla and Vera Cruz	PUE	Volcan Pico de Orizaba	5,600	18,410	A
16	Queretaro	QUE	Cerro el Zamorano	3,360	10,760	B
30	Quintana Roo	ROO	2 unnamed points located 14 km southeast of Tres Garantias village	240	790	D*
21	San Luis Potosi	SIN	Cerro Grande	3,180	10,430	B
24	Sinaloa	SLP	Cerro Alto Tapanco on the Sinaloa and Durango border.	2,920	9,580	C
26	Sonora	SON	Cerro San Jose	2,700	8,678	B*
28	Tabasco	TAB	6.9 km S Raya Zaragoza	1,200	3,940	C*
15	Tamaulipas	TAM	Sierra el Borrado	3,420	11,000	B
4	Tlaxcala	TLA	Malinche, 2 points	4,420	14,640	A
31	Yucatan	YUC	19 unnamed points	210	690	D*
20	Zacatecas	ZAC	2 unnamed points in the Sierra el Asteillero, 2.6 km northwest of BM Astillero	3,200	10,482	B

Additional Locations for State High Points
The following are additional possible locations on these states.

State	Abbrev	High Point	Meters	Feet	Certainity	Map
Coahuila	COA	Cerro El Morro, 2 points	3,700	12,280	B	G14C45
Durango	DUR	Cerro Barajas	3,300	10,830	B	G13A76
Hidalgo	HID	unnamed point\u\s-22\s+2\d	3,390	11,120	C	E14B13
Nuevo Leon	NLE	flank Sierra de la Martha	3,600	11,180	C*	G14C45
Oaxaca	OAX	Cerro Nube Flan, 2 points	3,700	12,140	B	E14D89
Sonora	SON	2Cerro Pico Guacamayas, 3 points	2,620	8,681	B	H12D17
Sonora	SON	Cerro las Flores (2 points -- observations indicate western peak higher)	2,620	8,678	B	H12B54
Zacatecas	ZAC	Cerro los Pelones	3,180	10,466	B	G14C62

Place names and meter elevations are taken from the current Mexican 1:50,000 top ographic maps. It is not hard to find different names and elevations in other sources. The CER. column shows the certainty the high point location is correct, rated from A(excellent) to F(poor).A trailing * shows there is some uncertainty as to state border location. Most of the feet elevations are taken from 1:500,000 scale Tactical Pilot Charts, but some elevations are simply converted from meters using a scale factor 3.2808.

I did my work off several groups of maps, most from University of Arizona library:

Mexican 1:250,000
Mexican 1:50,000
Mexican state altases (for boundary descriptions)
Mexican road atlases (not much help)
1:500,000 scale air maps (I purchased several).

The 1:50,000 topo maps are not too bad, and I used them for the "final authority" in elevations and naming.

The most vexing problem was trying to figure out where the state borders lie - they are usually not shown on the 1:50,000 scale maps, and hop around to different places on the larger scale maps. The Sonora/Chihuahua border is a classic example, and has a major impact on the Sonora HP location.