Cerro de Chipinque

The Cerro de Chipinque is a mountain in the San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey and Santa Catarina municipalities; state of Nuevo León, Mexico.

The mountain is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental range and the Cumbres de Monterrey National Park.

[3] Though this area's beauty was widely known, it wasn't an Ecological Park until 1992, when a board of trustees made up of the government of the State of Nuevo León and a private initiative was formalized.

With altitudes ranging from 800m to around 2200m above sea level, the tallest peak is known as Copete de las Aguillas, which is Spanish for crest of the eagles.

Some of the plants there are Agave americana, A. bracteosa, A. scabra, Asclepias (milkweed) sp., Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud), Cestrum parqui, Cordia boissieri, Echinocereus sp., Euphorbia (spurge) sp., ferns, Garrya elliptica, Havardia (tenaza) sp., Ipomoea (morning glory) sp., Juniperus flaccida (enebro triste), Justicia sp., Lantana sp., Lenophyllum sp., Mammillaria (pincushion) sp., Monarda (bee balm) sp., Nicotiana (tobacco) sp., Opuntia (prickly pear) sp., Pinus pseudostrobus (pino lacio), Prosopis (mesquite) sp., Prunus persica (durazno), Quercus canbyi (encino duraznillo) and other types of oak, Vachellia constricta (chaparro prieto) and Vachellia farnesiana (huizache or sweet acacia).