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» This article is about the mountain in Mexico. For the volcano in the Galapagos islands, see Sierra Negra (Galapagos).
Sierra Negra (also, and perhaps more properly, called
Cerro La Negra) is a companion peak of Mexico's highest mountain, the
Pico de Orizaba. At above sea level (depending on which source one consults) it's one of Mexico's highest peaks, perhaps even the fourth highest. However, because it's overshadowed by its much higher companion it isn't as well known as, for instance, the slightly lower
Matlalcueitl, and is often not included in lists of Mexico's mountains.
The summit of Sierra Negra is the site for one of the world's premier astronomical instruments, the
Large Millimeter Telescope. The service road for this project is claimed to be the highest road in North America. A part of the telescope facility is visible as a white dot in the first picture below and more clearly in the second picture.
The name Sierra Negra is confusing, because a 'Sierra' is usually a mountain range rather than a single peak, and there's a Sierra often called the Sierra Negra which lies to the south of this peak, along the border of the states of
Puebla and
Veracruz. However, it's the name that occurs on the official
INEGI maps and is the one that's most commonly used by English speakers to refer to the mountain. Speakers of
Orizaba Nahuatl call the peak
Istaktepetl ikni 'The Brother (or Sister) of the White Mountain' (the Pico de Orizaba being, of course, the White Mountain).
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