Cerro El Toro

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Cerro El Toro
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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″S69°47′12″W / 29.13000°S 69.78667°W / -29.13000; -69.78667 [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]

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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]

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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. 1 2 "Argentina and Chile North: Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  3. ↑ "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  4. 1 2 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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. 1 2 "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  15. ↑ "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.


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