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Huascarán National Park protects the Cordillera Blanca, which is the world's highest tropical mountain range. [3] Located in the central Peruvian Andes, the park's 340,000 hectares (840,000 acres) [ 1 ] cover an elevational range from around 2,500 meters (8,200 ft) to the several snow-capped peaks above 6,000 meters (20,000 ft). [ 3 ]
Huascarán gives its name to Huascarán National Park which surrounds it, and is a popular location for trekking and mountaineering. The Huascarán summit is one of the points on the Earth's surface farthest from the Earth's center, [ 8 ] closely behind the farthest point, Chimborazo in Ecuador .
Huascarán National Park is located in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Andes. It surrounds Huascarán, the tallest peak in Peru. The physical environment includes glaciers, ravines, and lakes, while the park is home to several regional animal species. [50] Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works: Tarapacá, Chile
It is one of the more than 400 lakes that form part of the Huascarán National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site. In the thaw season, the lake is nourished by a waterfall from Chacraraju. [1] [2] Its name comes from the fact that the lake did not have a name before the Huascaran National Park was created in 1975.
Huascarán National Park: Ancash 1985 333; vii, viii (natural) Huascarán National Park is located in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Andes. It surrounds Huascarán, the tallest peak in Peru. The physical environment includes glaciers, ravines, and lakes, while the park is home to several regional animal species.
Those experiments curb glacial retreat on a small scale, but cannot bring ice blocks like Pastoruri back from the brink," said Selwyn Valverde with the Huascaran National Park, home to Pastoruri and more than 700 other shrinking Peruvian glaciers. "It's irreversible at this point," he said, adding that Pastoruri is no longer technically a ...
Huandoy [2] [3] [4] (probably from Quechua wantuy, to transfer, to transpose, to carry, to carry a heavy load) [5] or Tullparaju [6] (possibly from Quechua tullpa rustic cooking-fire, stove, rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow) [7] [8] is a mountain located inside Huascarán National Park in Ancash, Peru.
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