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- noun an extinct volcano in southern Mexico between Mexico City and Veracruz; the highest peak in Mexico (18,695 feet)
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Examples
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A colleague invited him on a climbing trip to Mexico, which would summit La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl and Pico de Orizaba the highest mountain in Mexico over the course of 10 days.
Climb Every Mountain (But Train Hard First) Jen Murphy 2011
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Aunque no se han localizado ninguna fuente de estos materiales creemos por la presencia-ausencia de los distintos artefactos que los yacimientos de silex y basalto son locales mientras Ubicación de carrizal, Tres Zapotes y los Tuxtlas que la obsidiana está siendo importada de Puebla y el Pico de Orizaba (la montaña más alta de México).
Las cosas avanzan r��pidamente « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site 2009
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It includes the highest peaks of Mexico, including Pico de Orizaba, Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl (more than 5,000 m high), and contains a number of active volcanoes.
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The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, which runs from west to east across central Mexico, and serves as a bridge connecting the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental, is the highest mountain chain in the hotspot, including the peaks of Pico de Orizaba (5,747 meters [m]) and Popocatépetl (5,452 meters).
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It is composed of igneous rocks (piroclastic and andesitic), and is home to the tallest peaks in Mexico: the Pico de Orizaba (5,747 meters (m)) and the Popocatépetl (5,452 m).
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The team, pulling experts from the university's math, geology, geography and mechanical engineering departments, will create simulations of three active volcanoes in Mexico: Colima , Pico de Orizaba and Popocatepetl .
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An Aztec shrine dating from the fifteenth century has been found some 14,000 feet up the 18,500-foot-high Pico de Orizaba (or Citlatépetl), Mexico's tallest mountain.
Towering Temple 2001
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Pico de Orizaba, home to an astronomical Aztec shrine (Scott Perkins) [LARGERIMAGE]
Towering Temple 2001
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The 50m-wide dish will sit at a height of 4580m on the summit of Sierra Negra, an extinct volcano in the central state of Puebla, which lies alongside Mexico's highest mountain, the snowy-peaked Pico de Orizaba.
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Two died in a mountaneering accident -- fell on the descent from Pico de Orizaba in 1999.
unknown title 2009
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