Marmolejo
| Marmolejo | ||
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 the Andes with the Marmolejo |
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| height | 6108 m | |
| location | Argentina - Chile border | |
| Mountains | To the | |
| Coordinates | 33 ° 44 '5 " S , 69 ° 52' 42" W | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano | |
| Age of the rock | Pleistocene | |
| First ascent | January 1928 by Albrecht Maas , Hermann Sattler and Sebastian Krückel | |
| particularities | southernmost six-thousander in the world | |
The Marmolejo is a 6,108 meter high mountain in the Andes , the summit of which is on the border between Argentina and Chile . Eighty kilometers southeast of Santiago de Chile , to the east of the El Morado natural monument and north of the still active San José volcano , it is the world's southernmost six-thousander. The mountain is a no longer active stratovolcano from the Pleistocene period .
Web links
- San José in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
- Primera Ascension 1928 ( PDF , Spanish; 723 kB) - Report by Sebastian Krückel about the first ascent in 1928