Cerro Cedral

{{Short description|Mountain in Costa Rica}}

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| elevation_m = 2420

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| location = San José Province, Costa Rica

| range = Cerros de Escazú

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The Cerro Cedral is the second highest mountain of the Cerros de Escazú, Costa Rica with {{Convert|2420|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}. Cedral means 'cedar forest' referring to an endangered tree species locally known as Cedro Dulce, which occurs there.[http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB=UBIPUB.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-error=norec.html&-Format=detail_print.html&-Op=eq&id=2167&-Find/ Atta: Cedrela tonduzzi (Cedro dulce)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718162704/http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB=UBIPUB.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-error=norec.html&-Format=detail_print.html&-Op=eq&id=2167&-Find%2F |date=July 18, 2011 }}

This mountain marks the southern limit of Escazú as a canton and of San José as a province.

The Agres river rises from the Cerro Cedral.

On January 15, 1990 a Sansa Airlines flight crashed into the Cerro Cedral killing all 23 crew and passengers on board. The pilot, flying a CASA C-212 Aviocar, was later determined to be under excessive fatigue at the moment.[http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2006/enero/19/sucesos0.html/La Nación.com San José, Costa Rica: Sucesos]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}