Cerro El Toro

Cerro El Toro
Cerro El Toro Located on Argentina/Chile border
Highest point
Elevation	6,168 m (20,236 ft)[1]
Prominence	1,842 m (6,043 ft)[2][3]
Parent peak	Majadita
Listing	Ultra
Coordinates	29°07′48″S 69°47′12″W[2]
Geography
Location	Argentina - Chile
Parent range	Andes
Climbing
First ascent	Incan ascent and first modern ascent 26th Feb 1964 - Antonio Beorchia Nigris (Italy), Jorge Enrique Varas and Sergio Fernandez (Argentina)[4]

Cerro El Toro is a mountain in the Andes located on the border between Argentina and Chile. It has an elevation of 6,168 m above sea level.[5] Its territory is within the Argentinean protection areas of Provincial Reserve San Guillermo. The Argentinean side is at San Juan province, commune of Iglesia.[6] Chilean side is at the Huasco province, and commune of Alto del Carmen.[7]

First Ascents

Toro was first climbed by Incas in unknown dates.[8] A mummy was found on the Argentine slopes in 1964.[9] The first recorded post colonization ascent was by Antonio Beorchia Nigris (Italy), Jorge Enrique Varas and Sergio Fernandez (Argentina) in 02/26/1964.[4]

Elevation

It has an official height of 6160 meters.[10] Other data from available digital elevation models: SRTM yields 6148 metres,[11] ASTER 6122 metres[12] and TanDEM-X 6184 metres.[13] The height of the nearest key col is 4326 meters, leading to a topographic prominence of 1842 meters.[14] Toro is considered a Mountain Range according to the Dominance System [15] and its dominance is 29.86%. Its parent peak is Majadita and the Topographic isolation is 143.4 kilometers.[14]

See also

• List of mountains in the Andes
• List of Ultras of South America

External links

• Elevation information about Toro
• Weather Forecast at Toro
• "Cerro del Toro, Argentina/Chile" on Peakbagger

References

1. "Cumbres en Zona Fronteriza: Cerro El Toro" (in Spanish). Chilean Government - Difrol. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
2. "Argentina and Chile North: Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
3. "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
4. Beorchia Nigris. El Enigma de los Santuarios Indigenas de Alta Montaña. pp. 224–237.
5. Biggar, John (2020). The Andes a guide for climbers (5th ed.). Castle Douglas, Scotland. ISBN 978-0-9536087-7-5. OCLC 1260820889.
6. "Capas SIG | Instituto Geográfico Nacional". www.ign.gob.ar. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
7. rbenavente. "Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional | SIIT | Mapas vectoriales". bcn.cl. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
8. Ceruti, Maria Constanza (2015). "Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice". BioMed Research International. 2015: 439428. doi:10.1155/2015/439428. ISSN 2314-6133. PMC 4543117. PMID 26345378.
9. Schobinger, Juan (1964-12-01). "Discovery of an Indian Body on Cerro El Toro, Southern Andes". Current Anthropology. 5 (5): 419. doi:10.1086/200529. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 143969025.
10. "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
11. USGS, EROS Archive. "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
12. "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
13. TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
14. "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
15. "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.