Hueco Mountains

{{Short description|Mountain range in the United States}}

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{{Infobox mountain

| name=Hueco Mountains

| map=

| photo= Hueco Mountains storm.jpg

| photo_caption= Hueco Mountains in sun and rain, with Cerro Alto prominent, as seen from the base of the tramway, El Paso, Texas, {{convert|30|mi|-1}} west of Cerro Alto

| photo_alt=A photo of the Hueco Mountains from the distance

| country=United States

| state=Texas, New Mexico

| border=

| area_mi2=2562

| range_coordinates =

| length_mi=71

| length_orientation=N/S

| width_mi=62

| width_orientation=E/W

| highest=Cerro Alto Mountain

| elevation_ft=6703

| coordinates = {{coord|31.945278|N|105.97|W|type:mountain|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

}}

The Hueco Mountains are a range of mountains that rise in southern Otero County, New Mexico and extend {{convert|27|mi}} south into Texas, generally along the El Paso–Hudspeth county line just east of the city of El Paso, Texas. The highest point of the range is the Cerro Alto Mountain {{Convert|6703|ft}} in Hudspeth County.{{cite peakbagger|135601|Heuco Mountains|January 13, 2013}}{{cite gnis|1374169|Hueco Mountains|January 13, 2013}}

The Hueco Bolson, a down-dropped area with an elevation of {{convert|4000|ft|-2}} above sea level, with sedimentary fill nearly {{convert|9000|ft|-2}} thick, lies between the Hueco and Franklin Mountains. Shallow, stony soils in the Hueco Mountains support oak, juniper, and some mesquite. The mountains were part of the Rocky Mountain trend, forced upward as part of the Laramide mountain-building period during the late Cretaceous, 60 to 70 million years ago.

The word hueco is Spanish for hollow, gap, or hole.{{cite book|author=Erwin Gustav Gudde|title=California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-22djGNuhwC&pg=SL3-PA147|access-date=27 March 2013|year=1949|publisher=University of California Press|pages=3–|id=GGKEY:403N5Z6QERG}}