Pico de Orizaba is the highest mountain in Mexico, and third highest mountain in North America. Rising 18,701 feet above sea level, it is the continent's highest volcano. The is so high, that it is when the of Veracruz by water, despite the fact that it is located 75 miles !
Pico de Orizaba last in 1846, making it a volcano. According to Aztec , the "sacred fire" from Orizaba's crater a winged serpent named Quetzalcoatl, who sailed across the sea as a human, promising to return to Mexico in the .