Peña de Bernal

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Peña de Bernal

Elevation	2510 m (8230 ft) AMSL^{[citation needed]}
Location	San Sebastián Bernal, Ezequiel Montes, Querétaro, México
Range	Sierra Gorda
Prominence	350 m (1150 ft)
Type	Porphyrytic monolith
Age of rock	~ 100 million years
Translation	Bernal Peak (Spanish)

Peña de Bernal (in English: Bernal's Boulder or Bernal Peak) is the second-largest monolith in the world, after Mt. Augustus, Western Australia. It is also the fourth-highest monolith in the world (at 350 meters (1150 ft)), after Mount Augustus, the Rock of Gibraltar and Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Peña de Bernal is located in San Sebastián Bernal, a small town in the Mexican state of Querétaro. .^[1]

According to Leonor López Domínguez of México Desconocido, the porphyrytic monolith was formed some 100 million years ago during the Jurassic period, when it must have been at least three times higher than today.^[1]

Many people make a pilgrimage to the highest point hikeable, visiting a little chapel about halfway up. On the Spring equinox, people gather all dressed in white to form a human belt around the monolith.^{[citation needed]}