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Cerro las Conchas
Cerro las Conchas is a 2,880 m ultra-prominent peak (1,940 m prominence, 8th in Mexico) in Michoacán's Mexican West Coast Ranges, near Coalcomán; distinct from a 1,306 m fossil hill of the same name in Arivechi, Sonora.
Cerro Las Minas
Cerro Las Minas, or Pico Celaque, is Honduras' highest mountain at 2,849 m, in Celaque National Park, Lempira. Climbed via the 20 km Al Cielo Trail over two days from Gracias.
Cerro Malcante
Cerro Malcante (also Cerro Negro, Zamaca) is an approximately 5,100 m Ultra-prominent peak in the Malcante Range, Eastern Cordillera, Salta, Argentina, with 1,917 m prominence, radio masts on its summit, and exhumation dated to about 10 Ma.
Cerro Marmolejo
Cerro Marmolejo, a 6,108 m Andes border peak between Chile and Argentina near San José de Maipo, is the world's southernmost 6,000 m mountain; first climbed in 1928 by Maass, Sattler, and Krückel.
Cerro Mellizo Sur
Cerro Mellizo Sur ("South Twin") names two mountains: a 1,671 m hill in Laguna Blanca National Park, Neuquén, Argentina, and a ~3,340 m Patagonian Andes peak in Aysén, Chile, also called Cerro Steffen.
Cerro Mohinora
Cerro Mohinora, highest mountain in Chihuahua, Mexico, about 3,300-3,307 m in the Sierra Madre Occidental; core of the 9,126-ha Cerro Mohinora Flora and Fauna Protection Area (2015) in Guadalupe y Calvo.
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.
Chabrier, roca
Chabrier, roca (Chabrier Rock), Antarctic rock rising 40 m on the east side of the entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands; charted as Rocher Chabrier by Charcot's French expedition in December 1909.
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.
Chaco Austral
Chaco Austral (Southern Chaco): southern section of the Gran Chaco plain of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia, lying between the Salado and Bermejo rivers; a semi-arid dry-forest region of alluvial fans, extensive ranching, and heavy recent deforestation.
Chakragil
Chakragil (Chinese: 阿依拉尼什雪山; Turkic: Kingata Tagh) is a 6,760-meter mountain in Xinjiang, China, the highest peak of the Kingata Shan, first climbed by a Japanese team in 1988.
Chalbi Desert
The Chalbi Desert is an arid, endorheic playa desert in Marsabit County, northern Kenya, east of Lake Turkana, widely described as the driest of Kenya's deserts.
Chamechaude
Chamechaude, 2,082 m, is the highest and most prominent peak (1,772 m) of the Chartreuse Massif in Isère, France, above the Col de Porte; a limestone summit with normal route, Jardin tour, and a nordic ski domain of the same name.
Channel Islands (California)
The California Channel Islands are eight islands off southern California; five form Channel Islands National Park (est. 1980), home to 145 endemic species, 13,000 years of Chumash habitation, and the recovered island fox.
Channeled Scablands
Channeled Scablands: scabland terrain of eastern Washington's Columbia Plateau, carved by repeated Ice Age Missoula floods; proposed by J Harlen Bretz in 1923, analog for Martian outflow channels.