The highest peak in each province.

Climbing the highest peak in each province is one of those challenges that many of us have set ourselves at some time or another.

It usually happens that over the years the main peaks of each mountain range fall and with them, many of the provincial peaks. At first the Aneto, the Pica d'Estats, Mulhacen, Torrecerredo, Almanzor... and so on up to 15, 20, 25... However, there comes a time when things stop and if it is not because we have set ourselves the challenge of climbing them all, we will hardly reach a good handful of them, the most distant or least interesting from a mountaineering point of view.

At this point, the first thing to do is to find out what the provincial ceiling is, not without some confusion in some cases, as was the case in Teruel, Cantabria, Gran Canaria and a few others.

Here we have based ourselves on the list published by José Martinez Hernández in his book: Los Techos de España. An updated edition in 2018 of that first book published in 1999, and in which in addition to describing the ascent routes to each of them, a great deal of research work has been carried out to determine the true provincial ceiling. Just look at how the original list has changed from the current one.

50 provinces - 45 mountains

MAP OF PROVINCIAL CEILINGS