Sierra de San Pedro Mártir

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir (Kiliwa: ʔxaal haq, English: mountains of Saint Peter the Martyr) is a mountain range located within southern Ensenada Municipality and southern Baja California state, of northwestern Mexico.

Also known as Cerro de la Encantada (Enchanted Mountain) and Picacho la Providencia (Providence Peak), it is the highest point in Baja California state and of the entire Baja California Peninsula.

In 1889, there was a gold rush in the Santa Clara mountains about 100 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of Ensenada.

[4] The critically endangered San Pedro Mártir cypress (Hesperocyparis montana) is endemic to the Sierra.

[5] The canyons of the lower eastern Sierra de Pedro Mártir are the southernmost of natural distribution of the California fan palm (Washingtonia filifera).

Baja California rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss nelsoni) are native to the headwaters of Rio Santo Domingo in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir.

The Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, with Picacho del Diablo (center).
2.12m telescope at National Astronomical Observatory .
High elevation trees include Pinus jeffreyi , Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana , and Abies concolor subsp. lowiana .
Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests ecoregion flora.