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
Geography
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]

Western slopes of Cerro El Muerto during the southern summer

See also

• List of mountains in Argentina

External links

• Elevation information about Muerto
• Weather Forecast at Muerto
• Cerro el Muerto at Tageo.com

References

1. SummitPost: El Muerto
2. "Muerto". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
3. "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
4. USGS, EROS Archive. "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
5. "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
6. "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
7. TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
8. "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
9. "Andes Website - El Muerto". Andes Website. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
10. "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
11. "Muerto". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
12. "Muerto". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
13. 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. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2020-04-12.