- Source: Monte Guilarte
Monte Guilarte, also known as Monte del Guaraguao, is the fifth-highest peak in Puerto Rico at 1,199 meters (3,934 ft) above sea level. The mountain is located in the Cordillera Central, in the municipality of Adjuntas.
It is so named after Captain Juan Guilarte de Salazar, a Spanish explorer and Conquistador, who was one of the first settlers of Puerto Rico. In 1513, Guilarte de Salazar led a column of 50 men to victory against 600 Taíno Indians in the southwest of the island.
The mountain and its surroundings encompasses the Guilarte State Forest, located in Guilarte, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
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Montañas de Puerto Rico on Proyecto Salon Hogar
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Monte Guilarte
- Polystichum calderonense
- Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
- Guilarte State Forest
- Sticta guilartensis
- Sticta parvilobata
- List of mountains of the United States
- Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico)
- El Gigante Dormido
- List of Puerto Rico state forests
