Cerro El Toro

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]

Cerro El Toro
Cerro El Toro
Location in Argentina on the border with Chile
Highest point
Elevation6,168 m (20,236 ft)[1]
Prominence1,842 m (6,043 ft)[2][3]
Parent peakMajadita
ListingUltra
Coordinates29°07′48″S 69°47′12″W[2]
Geography
LocationArgentina - Chile
Parent rangeAndes
Climbing
First ascentIncan ascent and first modern ascent 26th Feb 1964 - Antonio Beorchia Nigris (Italy), Jorge Enrique Varas and Sergio Fernandez (Argentina)[4]

First Ascent and Incan Ascents

Toro was surely first climbed by Incas in unknown dates.[8] A mummy was found on the Argentine slopes in 1964.[9] The first recorded ascent was by Antonio Beorchia Nigris (Italy), Jorge Enrique Varas and Sergio Fernandez (Argentina) in 02/26/1964.[10]

Elevation

It has an official height of 6160 meters.[11] Other data from available digital elevation models: SRTM yields 6148 metres,[12] ASTER 6122 metres[13] and TanDEM-X 6184 metres.[14] The height of the nearest key col is 4326 meters, leading to a topographic prominence of 1842 meters.[15] Toro is considered a Mountain Range according to the Dominance System [16] and its dominance is 29.86%. Its parent peak is Majadita and the Topographic isolation is 143.4 kilometers.[15]

See also

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. "Argentina and Chile North: Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  3. "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  4. 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.
  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. Beorchia Nigris. El Enigma de los Santuarios Indigenas de Alta Montaña. pp. 224–237.
  11. "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  12. USGS, EROS Archive. "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  13. "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  14. TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  15. "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  16. "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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