The Cerro de la Viga is a mountain located in the municipalities of

Arteaga, Coahuila Arteaga () is a city and a Pueblo Mágico in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. Geography It stands some east of state capital Saltillo, on Federal Highways ...

and

Santiago, Nuevo León Santiago is a municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area and its area comprises around 763.8 km². According to the 2005 census, its population is 37,886 inhabitants. ...

in northeastern

Mexico Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...

. Its peak named Cerro San Rafael culminates at 3,712 m above the sea level and has a

prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

of 1,395 m. It is the highest point in Coahuila and the second highest point in the

Sierra Madre Oriental The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that ...

and in

northern Mexico Northern Mexico ( es, el Norte de México ), commonly referred as , is an informal term for the northern cultural and geographical area in Mexico. Depending on the source, it contains some or all of the states of Baja California, Baja California ...

. The mountain is surrounded by the

Cerro Rancho Nuevo Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". Toponyms ;Bolivia: * Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" containing silver ore near Potosi, Bolivia ;Brazil: *Cerro Branco, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul *Cerro Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipa ...

Sierra El Álamo Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and " saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range ...

, Sierra San Isidro,

Sierra Mauricio Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and " saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range ...

, Sierra El Muerto (Santiago),

El Coahuilón El Coahuilón is a mountain located in the municipalities of Arteaga; Coahuila and Rayones; Nuevo León, Mexico; to the northeast of the town Mesa de las Tablas. The mountain is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental. Its altitude is 3,575 meters abov ...

Sierra Las Alazanas Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and " saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range ...

and Cerro La Mina. Its 40-km-long ridge is the border between Coahuila and Nuevo León over 22 km. In June 2011, a fire affected the southern side of the mountain.

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Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains of Mexico North American 3000 m summits Landforms of Coahuila Landforms of Nuevo León {{NorthAm-mountain-stub

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