Tecate Peak

{{Short description|Mountain in California, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Tecate Peak

| photo = Kuuchamaa.jpg

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| photo_caption =

| elevation_ft = 3883

| elevation_ref = {{navd88}}{{cite ngs |pid=DC2016 |name=Tecate |accessdate=2021-09-19}}

| prominence_ft = 1885

| prominence_ref = {{cite peakbagger |pid=16804 |name=Tecate Peak, California |accessdate=2015-07-07}}

| range =

| parent_peak =

| location = San Diego County, California, U.S.

| map = USA California San Diego County

| map_size = 200

| map_caption = none

| label_position = left

| listing = San Diego Peak list{{cite San Diego peaks list |access-date=2021-09-19}}

| coordinates = {{coord|32.579349992|N|116.688796019|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:NGS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| topo = USGS Tecate

| first_ascent =

| easiest_route = Road (high clearance recommended){{cite summitpost |id=934727 |title=Tecate Peak CA |access-date=2021-09-19}}

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Tecate Peak is a mountain in San Diego County, California. It is four miles west of the twin towns of Tecate, California, and Tecate, Baja California, and is about 1/2 mile north of the Mexico–United States border.

Tecate Peak is also known as Kuuchamaa (also spelled Kuchamaa, Cuchuma, and Cuchama) Mountain, and is a sacred mountain for the indigenous Kumeyaay people.{{cite journal |jstor=27825214 |title=Kuuchamaa: The Kumeyaay Sacred Mountain |last=Shipek|first=Florence C. |journal=Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |date=1985 |volume=7 |issue=1}}