Cerro El Muerto
| Cerro El Muerto | |
|---|---|
 Cerro El Muerto as seen from Ojos del Salado | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 6,510 m (21,360 ft)[1][2] |
| Prominence | 971 metres (3,186 ft) |
| Parent peak | Ojos del Salado |
| Coordinates | 27°3′28.44″S 068°29′03.12″W / 27.0579000°S 68.4842000°W |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Argentina-Chile |
| Parent range | Puna de Atacama, Andes |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 23/02/1950 - Luis Alvarado, Jorge Balastino, Carlos and Oscar Alvarez (Chile) |
Location
Cerro el Muerto (sometimes El Muerto fully translated as The Dead One ") is a range or area at the border of Argentina and Chile. It has a height of 6,510 metres (21,358 ft). It's located at Atacama Region, Copiapó Province, at the Puna de Atacama. It only receives a handful of climbing attempts every year and most are from the Chilean side.
Elevation
It has an official height of 6488 meters,[3] however, based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM (6490m[4]), ASTER (6488m[5]), SRTM filled with ASTER (6490m[6]), TanDEM-X(6533m[7]), and also a handheld GPS survey by Maximo Kausch on 12/2010 (6519 meters),[8] Muerto is about 6510 meters above sea level.[9][10][11]
The height of the nearest key col is 5539 meters so its prominence is 971 meters. Its parent peak is Ojos del Salado and the Topographic isolation is 8 kilometers.[12] This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.[13]
See also
External links
References
- ^ SummitPost: El Muerto
- ^ "Muerto". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ USGS, EROS Archive. "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Andes Website - El Muerto". Andes Website. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Muerto". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Muerto". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ ap507. "Academic and adventurer describes the incredible task of climbing and cataloguing one of the most remote regions of the South American Andes mountains — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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