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Rank Country or Region Highest point Elevation 1 Argentina Aconcagua [1]: 6,962 m (22,841 ft) 4 Bolivia Nevado Sajama [2]: 6,542 m (21,463 ft) 8 Brazil Pico da Neblina [3]
Aconcagua (Spanish pronunciation: [akoŋˈkaɣwa]) is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera [4] of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina.It is the highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, [5] and the highest in both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere [1] with a summit elevation of 6,961 metres (22,838 ft).
Aconcagua (Mendoza) 6,962 m (22,841 ft) . Nevado El Plomo 6,070 m (19,910 ft); Cerro Ameghino approx. 5,940 m (19,490 ft); Ojos del Salado (Catamarca) 6,893 m (22,615 ...
The mountain range is also a source of shallow intraplate earthquakes within the South American Plate. The largest such earthquake (as of 2024) struck Peru in 1947 and measured M s 7.5. In the Peruvian Andes, these earthquakes display normal ( 1946 ), strike-slip (1976), and reverse ( 1969 , 1983) mechanisms.
Aconcagua is the highest mountain peak in South America. The Altiplano Plate and the North Andes Plate, both of which share geological processes with the South American continent, have their own highest mountain peaks: [11] South America – Aconcagua (6,961 m or 22,838 ft) Altiplano Plate – presumably Nevado Sajama (6,542 m or 21,463 ft)
This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence. ... Aconcagua: Andes Argentina ... South Georgia 2,934 2,934 0 None ...
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The list is an incomplete list of mountains in the Andes. There are many named and unnamed peaks in the Andes that are currently not included in this list. The dividing line between a mountain with multiple peaks and separate mountains is not always clear (see Highest unclimbed mountain). The table below lists the summits with at least 400m ...