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List of mountains in Argentina. 8 languages. ... The list also shows the height of each mountain. Mountains. Aconcagua (Mendoza) 6,962 m (22,841 ft)
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).
Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in the Americas, is a massive Andean lava dome dating to Pleistocene times. [2] It lies on the Argentina–Chile border, between the Chilean Metropolitan Region (near a major international highway about 80 km (50 mi) east of Santiago) and the Argentine province of Mendoza, about 100 km (62 mi) south of Aconcagua, the highest peak of both the Southern and ...
Some peaks of the Cerro Torre Group. 2: Cerro Torre, 3: Torre Egger, 4: Punta Herron, 5: Aguja Standhart, 7: Aguja Bífida, 11: Cuatro Dedos. Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located on the border dividing Argentina and Chile, [3] west of Fitz Roy (also known as
The Andes Mountains host large ore and salt deposits, and some of their eastern fold and thrust belts act as traps for commercially exploitable amounts of hydrocarbons. In the forelands of the Atacama Desert, some of the largest porphyry copper mineralizations occur, making Chile and Peru the first- and second-largest exporters of copper in
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 ...
Boggy Peak on Antigua: 402 m 1,319 ft Caribbean Sea: sea level 402 m 1,319 ft Argentina: Aconcagua [a] [b] 6960 m 22,835 ft Laguna del Carbón [c] −105 m −344 ft: 7065 m 23,179 ft Armenia: Mount Aragats [2] 4090 m 13,419 ft Aras River [2] [3] 375 m 1,230 ft 3715 m 12,188 ft Aruba: Mount Jamanota: 188 m 617 ft Caribbean Sea: sea level 188 m ...
Chart showing the relationship between the 100 peaks with highest prominence in the world. (In the SVG version, hover over a peak to highlight its parent(s) and click it to view its article.) This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.