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Cerro Nevado
Cerro Nevado, also Cerro El Nevado, is a Pleistocene stratovolcano in the Sierra del Nevado, San Rafael Department, Mendoza, Argentina, part of the Payenia volcanic province, about 200 km east of the Andean arc front; elevation reported between 3,436 and 3,980 m.
Cerro Nube Flane
Cerro Nube Flane (Quie Yelaag), a 3,720 m peak in southern Oaxaca, Mexico; highest point of Oaxaca state and the Sierra Madre del Sur, an ultra-prominent summit with 2,141 m prominence and 327 km isolation.
Cerro Paine Grande
Cerro Paine Grande, highest peak of the Paine Massif in Torres del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia; glaciated ice mountain with four summits, first climbed in 1957 by the Guido Monzino expedition, elevation reported as 3,050 m or 2,884 m.
Cerro Palpana
Cerro Palpana (Volcán Palpana) is an ultra-prominent volcano in the Puna de Atacama of northern Chile, rising about 6,023 meters and first climbed in 1977.
Cerro Payún
Cerro Payún, also called Cerro Payen or Payún Liso, is a stratovolcano on the SW flank of Argentina's Payún Matrú shield, the massif's high point; reported elevations range from 3,680 to 3,833 m.
Cerro Picacho La Laguna
Cerro Picacho La Laguna, also called Cerro el Picacho or Sierra La Laguna, is a peak in Baja California Sur, Mexico, near La Ventana; databases give 1,922–1,979 m, with a Panama namesake near Laguna de San Carlos.
Cerro Pircas
Cerro Pircas is a 5,261 m peak in the Cordón del Portillo, Cordillera Frontal, Mendoza, Argentina, west of Tunuyán; first climbed in 1951 by Manuel Rodríguez via the north ridge, second ascent 1960 by Alfredo Magnani's party via the west ridge, the most-used route today.
Cerro Rico
Cerro Rico, also called Cerro de Potosí, is a silver-bearing mountain in Potosí, Bolivia, whose veins, discovered in 1545, made it a principal world source of silver for three centuries.
Cerro San Rafael
Cerro San Rafael, also called La Viga, is a 3,710 m Sierra Madre Oriental summit in Coahuila, Mexico, the highest point of northern Mexico; the name also labels smaller mountains in Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, and other Mexican states.
Cerro Sosneado
Cerro Sosneado is a 5,189 m stratovolcano in the Cordillera Principal of Mendoza Province, Argentina, first climbed in 1935 and the southernmost mountain above 5,000 m on Earth.
Cerro Tamana
Cerro Tamana (Cerro Tamaná), a peak of Colombia's Western Cordillera in Chocó near Cerro Tatamá; elevation reported as 3,601 m (GeoNames) or 4,200 m (Colombian sources), prominence 2,573 m, within PNN Tatamá.
Cerro Tia Chena
Cerro Tia Chena (Cerro Tía Chena) is a 2,625 m ultra-prominence peak in Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, Mexico, the summit of the Sierra de Minas Viejas in the Sierra Madre Oriental, distinct from Chile's Cerro Chena.
Cerro Tiotepec, 2 areas
Cerro Tiotepec, also Cerro Teotepec, is Guerrero state's highest mountain at about 3,550 m in the Sierra Madre del Sur, with 2,160 m prominence, 179.4 km isolation, and two candidate summit areas.
Cerro Tristeza
Cerro Tristeza, Venezuelan mountain in the Serranía de Turimiquire, 2,596 m, triple point of Anzoátegui, Sucre, and Monagas; ultra-prominence state high point, distinct from the Bariloche namesake.
Cerro Tupungato
Cerro Tupungato is a 6,570 m extinct volcano on the Argentina–Chile border in the central Andes, about 80 km south of Aconcagua, which it follows as the range's highest peak.
Cerro Viejo
Cerro Viejo ("old hill") names several mountains, notably a protected 2,960-2,970 m peak near Tlajomulco, Jalisco, among Jalisco's highest, plus peaks in San Gabriel (2,307 m) and Hidalgo (2,846 m) and a Chilean conservation site.
Chacana
Chacana is a large eroded Pliocene-Holocene caldera complex in Ecuador's Eastern Cordillera, about 50 km east of Quito, one of the northern Andes' largest rhyolitic centers, with 1760 and 1773 eruptions and geothermal prospects.
Charleston Peak
Charleston Peak (Mount Charleston, Southern Paiute Nuvagantu), 11,916-11,918 ft summit of the Spring Mountains, Nevada; highest point in southern Nevada, sky-island bristlecone pine wilderness near Las Vegas.
Chatsquot Mtn.
Chatsquot Mountain is a 2,365 m ultra-prominent peak (1,981 m prominence) in the Kitimat Ranges, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, northwest of Kimsquit Lake; official name adopted 1947, host of a mineralized layered mafic intrusion.
Chiginagak
Mount Chiginagak, glaciated stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula, 600 km southwest of Anchorage; brief ash eruptions in 1971 and 1998; 2005 acid crater lake drainage acidified Mother Goose Lake, killing aquatic life.
Chiliques
Chiliques (Volcán Chiliques) is a 5,778 m andesitic stratovolcano in northern Chile south of Laguna Lejía, with a 500 m summit crater, no known Holocene eruptions, and a 2002 ASTER thermal anomaly.
Chimborazo
Chimborazo, also known as Volcán Chimborazo, is a glaciated volcano in central Ecuador whose summit, at 6,268 m, is the point on Earth's surface farthest from the Earth's center.
Chiricahua Peak
Chiricahua Peak, Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains high point in Cochise County, Coronado National Forest; 9,775.9 ft elevation, 5,156 ft prominence, ultra-prominent summit in the Chiricahua Wilderness.
Churchill (volcano)
Mount Churchill, a dacitic stratovolcano with a summit caldera in Alaska's St. Elias Mountains (Wrangell volcanic field), erupted VEI 6 White River Ash twice, about 1,887 BP and 833-850 CE, ash traced to Greenland and Europe.
Chutine Peak
Chutine Peak: 2,903 m mountain in the Boundary Ranges, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, east of Chutine Lake near the Stikine River; first climbed 16 July 1980, named officially 3 November 1980.
Cloud Peak
Cloud Peak, Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains high point at 13,166 ft (4,013 m), a Laramide granite summit in Cloud Peak Wilderness with 7,134 ft prominence, remnant glaciers, and limited technical climbing.
Colachi
Colachi is an andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano in Chile's Antofagasta Region, Central Andean Volcanic Arc, 5,631 m high, with Holocene-age silicic lava flows and no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Condor, El
Cerro El Cóndor (Laguna Escondida) is a 6,373 m stratovolcano in Catamarca, Argentina, one of the few large stratovolcanoes wholly in Argentina; dormant, unmonitored, with young <0.15 Ma lavas and high eruptive potential.
Copahue
Copahue is an active 2,953 m stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border in the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone, with an acidic crater lake, frequent mild eruptions through 2024, and a major geothermal field.
Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi is a glacier-clad Ecuadorian stratovolcano, 5,911 m, about 60 km southeast of Quito, one of the world's highest active volcanoes, known for the catastrophic 1877 lahars and eruptions in 2015 and 2022–2023.