San Gorgonio Mountain
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Mount San Gorgonio rises 11,502 feet (3506 meters) above sea level and is located in the San Bernardino Mountains. It is the highest peak in Southern California.
Spanish missionaries in the area during the early 1800s named the peak after Saint Gorgonius.
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