Cerro El Muerto Explained

Cerro El Muerto
Prominence:971m (3,186feet)
Elevation M:6510
Elevation Ref:[1] [2]
Parent Peak:Ojos del Salado
Location:Argentina-Chile
Range:Puna de Atacama, Andes
Coordinates:-27.0579°N -68.4842°W
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 6510m (21,360feet). 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

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/177350/el-muerto.html SummitPost: El Muerto
  2. Web site: Muerto. Andes Specialists. en. 2020-04-12.
  3. Web site: IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020.
  4. Web site: USGS. EROS Archive . USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps. 12 April 2020.
  5. Web site: ASTER GDEM Project. ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. 2020-04-14.
  6. Web site: ASTER GDEM Project. ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. 2020-04-14.
  7. Web site: TanDEM-X. TerraSAR-X. Copernicus Space Component Data Access. 12 April 2020. 12 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412222329/https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/web/cscda/missions/tandem-x. dead.
  8. Web site: Andean Mountains - All above 5000m. Andes Specialists. en. 2020-04-12.
  9. Web site: Andes Website - El Muerto . Andes Website. en. 2017-02-02.
  10. Web site: Andean Mountains - All above 5000m. Andes Specialists. en. 2020-04-12.
  11. Web site: Muerto. Andes Specialists. en. 2020-04-12.
  12. Web site: Muerto. Andes Specialists. en. 2020-04-12.
  13. Web site: 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. ap507. www2.le.ac.uk. en. 2020-04-12. 2021-10-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20211019043748/https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2016/october/academic-and-adventurer-describes-the-incredible-task-of-climbing-and-cataloguing-one-of-the-most-remote-regions-of-the-south-american-andes-mountains. dead.

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