Tres Cruces
| Tres Cruces | ||
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 Nevado Tres Cruces, Argentine-Chilean border |
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| height | 6749 m | |
| location | Argentina / Chile | |
| Mountains | To the | |
| Dominance | 23.47 km → Ojos del Salado | |
| Notch height | 1422 m | |
| Coordinates | 27 ° 3 ′ 4 ″ S , 68 ° 48 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano , extinguished | |
| First ascent | 1937 | |
Tres Cruces ( Spanish for "three crosses") is a volcano in the South American Andes on the border between the Atacama region ( Chile ) and the Catamarca province ( Argentina ). The massif has a north-south extension of eight to twelve kilometers and consists of three main peaks: the south summit ( Spanish Cumbre Sur or Cerro Tres Cruces Sur ) with a height of 6749 meters, the middle summit ( Spanish Cumbre Central ) with 6629 meters and the north summit ( Spanish Cumbre Norte ) with 6008 meters.
Tres Cruces represents the western end of a volcanic chain, which mainly consists of the volcanoes San Francisco , Incahuasi , El Fraile, El Muerto , Ojos del Salado , Cerro Solo and Tres Cruces. The southern summit is the fifth highest mountain in South America and was first climbed by a Polish expedition in 1937.