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The peak of the Sierra Negra is the site for one of the world's premier astronomical instruments, the [[Large Millimeter Telescope]]. The service road for this project is claimed to be the highest road in North America. A part of the telescope facility is visible as a white dot in the picture below.

The name '''Sierra Negra''' is confusing, because a 'Sierra' is usually a mountain range rather than a single peak, and there is a Sierra often called the '''Sierra Negra''' which lies to the south of this peak, along the border of the states of [[Puebla]] and [[Veracruz]]. However, it is the name that occurs on the official [[National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and ComputerData ScienceProcessing|INEGI]] maps and is the one that is most commonly used by English speakers to refer to the mountain. Speakers of [[Nahuatl|Orizaba Nahuatl]] call the peak ''Istaktepetl ikni'' 'The Brother (or Sister) of the White Mountain' (the Pico de Orizaba being, of course, the White Mountain).

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