Cerro de las Burras

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{{Infobox mountain

| name = Cerro de las Burras

| photo = Cerro de las Burras.jpg

| photo_caption = South aspect

| elevation_ft = 4349

| elevation_ref ={{cite peakbagger|pid=72246|name=Cerro de las Burras, Texas|access-date=2024-11-22}}

| prominence_ft = 246

| prominence_ref=

| isolation_mi = 1.25

| isolation_ref ={{cite web|url=https://listsofjohn.com/peak/94033|title=Cerro de las Burras - 4,345' TX|website=listsofjohn.com|access-date=2024-11-22}}

| parent_peak =

| etymology = Donkey Hill

| range = Bofecillos Mountains

| country = United States

| state = Texas

| region = Presidio

| region_type = County

| part_type = Protected area | part = Big Bend Ranch State Park

| map = Texas#USA

| map_caption = Location of Cerro de las Burras in Texas

| label_position = top

| coordinates = {{coord|29.4096304|N|104.1096331|W|type:mountain_region:US-TX_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref ={{cite gnis|id=1332603|name=Cerro de las Burras|access-date=2024-11-22}}

| topo = USGS Agua Adentro Mountain

| age = Oligocene (27 Ma)

| rock = Igneous rock

| type =

| volcanic_arc = Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field

| first_ascent =

| easiest_route =

}}

Cerro de las Burras is a {{convert|4349|ft|meter|adj=mid|-elevation|abbr=off|sp=us}} summit in Presidio County, Texas, United States.

Description

Cerro de las Burras is set in Big Bend Ranch State Park and the Chihuahuan Desert. The mountain is composed of 27.1 Ma basalt and tuff, overlaying 32 Ma conglomerate and sandstone.The Other Side of Nowhere: Exploring Big Bend Ranch State Park and Its Flora, Roy Morey, Texas A&M University Press, 2024, {{ISBN|9781648431074}}. Charles Christopher Parry walked to this mountain on August 24, 1852, during the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.From Presidio to the Pecos River: Surveying the United States–Mexico Boundary along the Rio Grande, 1852 and 1853, Orville B. Shelburne, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, {{ISBN|9780806167930}}, p. 45. Based on the Köppen climate classification, the mountain is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters.{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 | issn = 1027-5606}} Any scant precipitation runoff from the peak's slopes drains to the Rio Grande which is {{convert|2|mi|km|spell=in}} to the south. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises {{convert|1870.|ft|m}} above the river in two miles (3.2 km). The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The mountain's Spanish name translates as "Jenny Hill" as in jenny, a female donkey.

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