Third largest monolith in the world, after the Rock of Gibraltar in Spain and the “Pan de Azúcar” Mountain in Brazil. It has a height of 288 meters high and an altitude of 2515 meters above sea level. It has an existence of more than 10 million years and it comes from a volcano that over the years became inactive and that the lava inside it solidified. Later, erosion and time made the rest of the volcano disappear and only the solid magma remained. In November 2007, Peña de Bernal received an award from the Secretary of Tourism and TV Azteca recognizing it as one of the 13 Wonders of Mexico and considering it as a tourist destination with great historical and cultural relevance. In September 2009, the area was recognized as an Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO: "Places of memory and living traditions of the Otomí-Chichimecas of Tolimán: the Peña de Bernal, guardian of a sacred territory." Every March 21, on the spring equinox, thousands of tourists gather at the rock, in a mystical-religious festival to charge themselves with energy, which is believed to transmit the monolithic stones and mineral deposits of the interior.
