| Spanish Word | English Meaning |
|---|---|
| candelas | Literally “candles”; a collection of peñas |
| ceja | Steep-sided breaks or escarpments separating two plains of different elevations |
| cerro | A single eminence, intermediate in size between English hill and mountain |
| cordillera | A mass of mountains, as distinguished from a single mountain summit |
| cuchilla | Literally “knife”; the comblike secondary crests that project at right angles from the sides of a sierra |
| cumbre | The highest elevation or peak within a sierra or cordillera; a summit |
| eminencia | A mountainous or hilly protuberance |
| loma | A hill in the midst of a plain |
| mesa | Literally “table”; a flat-topped eminence |
| montaña | Equivalent to English mountain |
| pelado | A barren, treeless mountain |
| pelon | A bare conical eminence |
| peña | A needlelike eminence |
| picacho | A peaked or pointed eminence |
| sandia | Literally “watermelon”; an oblong, rounded eminence |
| sierra | An elongated mountain mass with a serrated crest |
| (Source: Hill, 1986.) | |