The Sierra del Fraile (Spanish for "Friar's range"), also known as "Cerro del Fraile", is a

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and a protected area located in the García, Abasolo,

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General Escobedo General Escobedo, or simply Escobedo, is a city and municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. As of the census of 2005, the population was 295,131 in the city and 299,364 in the municipality. The municip ...

, El Carmen y Mina municipalities in the state of Nuevo León,

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. The mountain is part of Sierra Madre Oriental; its summit

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is 2,392 MASL, and its

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is 1,592 meters (Line parent: Cerro de la Viga). It is an ultraprominent peak, with a

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of about 23.5 km (Nearest highest neighbor: Sierra de San Urbano).

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