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Mount Mestas is an 11,573-foot peak in the southeastern Sangre de Cristo Range of southern Colorado, near North La Veta Pass in Huerfano County. Long known as La Veta Peak, it had also appeared as Mt. Baldy, Baldy Peak, Veta Mountain, and Veta Peak. In 1949 the summit was renamed to honor PFC Felix B. Mestas Jr., who was killed in action during the Second World War. The mountain is significant both as a named summit in the range and as a place where local geography preserves the memory of a fallen soldier.
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