- Hueco Mountains
The Hueco Mountains are a range of mountains (centered at 31�57' N, 106�01' W) that rise in southern
Otero County, New Mexico and extend twenty-seven miles south intoTexas , generally along the El Paso-Hudspethcounty line just east of the city ofEl Paso, Texas . The highest point of the range is theCerro Alto (6,787 feet) in Hudspeth County.The Hueco Bolson, a down-dropped area with an elevation of 4,000 feet above sea level, with sedimentary fill nearly 9,000 feet thick, lies between 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 lateCretaceous , 60 to 70 million years ago.The word "hueco" is Spanish for hollow.
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