Monte Guilarte

Monte Guilarte, also called Monte del Guaraguao, is a mountain in Puerto Rico’s Cordillera Central in Adjuntas and, at 1,199 meters above sea level, ranks as the island’s fifth-highest peak. Its name comes from Captain Juan Guilarte de Salazar, a Spanish explorer and conquistador counted among Puerto Rico’s first settlers. In 1513, he led fifty men in a victory against six hundred Taíno in the island’s southwest, a colonial-era event tied to the mountain’s naming. The peak and its surrounding landscape form part of Guilarte State Forest, and it remains notable for both its height and its place in Puerto Rico’s central mountain range.

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