Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument Mountain, then an island, on 1 March 1565. The site was chosen to guard the entrance to Guanabara Bay, and the mountain was important as a signalling point. A landfill connected the island to the mainland in 1697, and various buildings were erected to defend the territory, but the Urca urban neighborhood was only built 300 years after the city was founded. The Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument was created by the city of Rio de Janeiro by municipal decree 26578 of 1 June 2006. The objectives are to guarantee green spaces for leisure in a natural area,
Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona) Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona) Sugarloaf Mountain, of Arizona is the tallest peak in the arid, low elevation Hummingbird Springs Wilderness of northwest Maricopa County, and about west of Phoenix. It rises in the Tonopah Desert about northwest of the Belmont Mountains. Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is just north of the Big Horn Mountains Wilderness. The two are separated only by a jeep trail that leads to Hummingbird Springs. The areas washes drain the into southwest-flowing Tiger Wash at the southeast of the Harquahala Mountains. Tiger Wash is a tributary wash in the central-upper regions of the southeast flowing Centennial Wash, a tributary