Cerro Las Minas is the highest mountain in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

. Cerro Las Minas is located in the rugged and relatively isolated Lempira Department in the western part of the country. A Honduran

national park A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...

, the

Celaque National Park Celaque National Park (formally in Spanish, ''Parque Nacional Montaña de Celaque'') is a national park in Lempira Ocotepeque and Copán, western Honduras. It was established on 5 August 1987 and covers an area of 266.31 square kilometres. It inc ...

, was established in 1987 for the mountain and some of surrounding territory. It is part of the

Cordillera de Celaque A cordillera is a chain or network of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas. The term is borrowed from Spanish, where the word comes from , a diminutive of ('rope'). The term is most commonly used in physical geograp ...

mountain range and is given the name "Pico Celaque, 2849m" on local 1:50,000 topographic mapping, but

SRTM The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56th parallel south, 56°S to 60th parallel north, 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resol ...

data suggests that 2870 m is more accurate.

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Las Minas Highest points of countries North American 2000 m summits {{Highest points of North America