The provinces of Spain are a political division of the country (very similar to the states of USA or hexagoneaux of France) and the conquest of the main summit of each province it's a funny objetive of some mountaineers. To find the highest point it's no easy in some provinces, in some cases it's possible to find different heights in some maps or books and the real different between summits is only of few meters...

-The most controversial: Torre Blanca with 2617m in some maps is high point of Cantabria but Peña Vieja had 2619m in other maps; Teruel: Peñarroya (2019m) in Sierra de Gúdar is less height than Javalambre (2020m) in many maps but not all.

-The highest point is not ever a summit of a mountain, this is the list of highpoints not the list of the highest summits (in some cases is difficult the denomination summit for some highpoint).

-In the province of Palencia the highest point is a very little peak in the mountain Peña Prieta (not main summit) called "Peña Prieta Sur" or "Peña del Infierno" and the highest summit is Curavacas.

-In Malaga the highest summit is the peak Torrecilla (1919m) but the highest point is in the hillside S-SW of peak Maroma (with main summit in Granada) approximately around the 2000 meters.

-The highpoint of Guipuzcoa is the little peak Aitxuri, really a little aiguille of the peak-massif Aizkorri. Both denominations are corrects.

What do you want? the highest point or the highest mountain?, I think it's personal. The really "peakbaggers"... they climb both points... but generally for mountaineers the highest summit it's a nice climb and the experience is better.

-Summits with permit required: Teide (for the access to the summit in the natural park of Las Cañadas), Puig Mayor (military base in the summit), Torreon del Pinar (park of Grazalema).

-The 51 highpoint? Ceuta and Melilla are two spanish citys in north of Africa with highpoint in Monte Hacho (204m) in massif of Rif.

-The mountains of the borderline of the province can be the highest point for two provinces as Moncayo, the main summit of Zaragoza and Soria.

This is the list of 50 provinces with the 47 highpoints (20 with page in summitpost):

Province	Summit	Height(m)	Massif	Province	Summit	Height(m)	Massif
Álava	Gorbea	1481	Gorbea	La Rioja	San Lorenzo	2271	Demanda
Albacete	Las Cabras	2084	Cabras	Las Palmas	Pico de las Nieves	1949	Canarias
Alicante	Aitana	1559	Aitana	León	Torre Cerredo	2648	Picos de Europa
Almería	Chullo	2610	Sierra Nevada	Lleida	Picá d'Estats	3143	Pirineos
Asturias	Torre Cerredo	2648	Picos de Europa	Lugo	Mustallar	1935	Ancares
Ávila	Almanzor	2592	Gredos	Madrid	Peñalara	2428	Guadarrama
Badajoz	Tentudia	1105	Tentudia	Málaga	Maroma	2066	Tejada
Baleares	Puig Major	1445	Tramuntana	Murcia	Revolcadores	2015	Seca
Barcelona	Costa Cabirolera	2582	Cadí	Navarra	Mesa de los Tres Reyes	2444	Pirineos
Burgos	San Millán	2131	Demanda	Orense	Trevinca	2127	Segundera
Cáceres	El Torreón	2401	Candelario	Palencia	Peña Prieta Sur	2530	Alto Carrión
Cádiz	Torreón del Pinar	1648	Grazalema	Pontevedra	Faro	1187	Faro
Cantabria	Peña Vieja	2613	Picos de Europa	Salamanca	Canchal de la Ceja	2435	Candelario
Castellón	Penyagolosa	1814	Penyagolosa	Sta Cruz de Tenerife	Teide	3719	Tenerife
Ciudad Real	Riscos del Amor	1344	Castañar	Segovia	Peñalara	2428	Guadarrama
Córdoba	Tiñosa	1570	Horconera	Sevilla	Terril	1129	Tablón
Cuenca	Mogorrita	1864	Valdemingo	Soria	Moncayo	2316	Moncayo
Gerona	Puigmal	2913	Pirineos	Tarragona	Caro	1447	Caro
Granada	Mulhacén	3478	Sierra Nevada	Teruel	Javalambre	2020	Javalambre
Guadalajara	Pico del Lobo	2272	Ayllón	Toledo	Rocigalgo	1444	Rocigalgo
Guipúzcoa	Aitxuri (Aizkorri)	1554	Aizkorri	Valencia	Calderón	1837	Javalambre
Huelva	Bonales	1055	Bonales	Valladolid	Robleñada	931	Ribera de Duero
Huesca	Aneto	3404	Pirineos	Vizcaya	Gorbea	1481	Gorbea
Jaén	Mágina	2164	Mágina	Zamora	Trevinca	2127	Segundera
La Coruña	Pilar	803	Bocelo	Zaragoza	Moncayo	2316	Moncayo

Images

Some images of the main mountains.

External Links

List of Spanish highest points
another list of Spain provinces high points.
Book "Techos de España"
interesting book of editorial Desnivel (spanish).
Club Peña Trevinca
list of highpoints and interesting list of alternative summits.
Pyrenaica, list of book of J.Martínez Hernández.

Images