Mount Mestas

{{Short description|Peak in the Rocky Mountains, in southern Colorado}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Mestas

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| photo = Mount Mestas.JPG

| photo_size = 275px

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| photo_caption = A view of Mount Mestas from the Cuchara Valley.

| elevation_ft = 11573

| elevation_ref = The elevation of Mount Mestas includes an adjustment of +1.372 m (+4.50 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.{{cite peakbagger|pid=16617|title=Mount Mestas, Colorado|access-date=October 21, 2014}}

| prominence_ft = 2229

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| isolation_mi = 16.33

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| listing = Colorado prominent summits

| range = Sangre de Cristo Range

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| location = Huerfano County, Colorado, U.S.

| map = Colorado

| map_caption = Colorado

| coordinates = {{coord|37.5827867|N|105.1472229|W|type:mountain_region:US-CO_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=192788|name=Mount Mestas|access-date=October 21, 2014}}

| topo = USGS 7.5' topographic map
La Veta Pass, Colorado

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Mount Mestas is a mountain summit in the southeastern Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The {{convert|11573|ft|0|adj=on}} peak is located {{convert|5.1|km|order=flip}} southeast (bearing 131°) of North La Veta Pass in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was known as La Veta Peak until 1949 when it was renamed in honor of PFC Felix B. Mestas Jr. who was killed in action during the Second World War.