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Glaciers in South America develop exclusively on the Andes and are subject to the Andes various climatic regimes namely the Tropical Andes, Dry Andes and the Wet Andes. Apart from this there is a wide range of altitudes on which glaciers develop from 5000 m in the Altiplano mountains and volcanoes to reaching sealevel as tidewater glaciers from ...
Category: Glaciers of South America by country. 3 languages. ... Glaciers of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1 C) V. Glaciers of Venezuela (6 P)
Glaciers of South America by country (8 C) A. Glaciers of Argentina (14 P) ... Glaciers of Tibet (5 P) Glaciers of Turkey (2 P) U. Glaciers of the United States (3 C ...
Ice streams are a type of glacier [5] and many of them have "glacier" in their name, e.g. Pine Island Glacier. Ice shelves are listed separately in the List of Antarctic ice shelves. For the purposes of these lists, the Antarctic is defined as any latitude further south than 60° (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty System). [6]
For one of South America’s bucket-list experiences, try driving the Ruta 40, a 3,246-mile road that runs from Patagonia all the way up the country. Read more on South America travel :
Glaciers of South America (1 C, 2 P) I. Ice fields of South America (4 P) L. Lakes of South America (8 C, 1 P) R. Rivers of South America (8 C, 3 P) S.
Lake Argentino, 1,466 km 2 (566 sq mi) and the largest in Argentina, is in the south, while Lake Viedma, 1,100 km 2 (420 sq mi), is in the north. Both lakes feed the Santa Cruz River that flows down to lower part Puerto Santa Cruz on the Atlantic. Between the two halves is a non-touristic zone without lakes called Zona Centro.
Glaciers of South America by country (8 C) Pages in category "Glaciers of South America" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.