Pico Bonpland is Venezuela's third highest peak, at 4,883 metres above sea level. It is located in the
Sierra Nevada de Merida, in the Venezuelan Andes of (
Mérida State
Mérida or Merida may refer to:
Places
*Mérida (state), one of the 23 states which make up Venezuela
*Mérida, Mérida, the capital city of the state of Mérida, Venezuela
* Merida, Leyte, Philippines, a municipality in the province of Leyte
* ...
). The peak with its sister peak
Pico Humboldt, and the surrounding
páramos are protected by the
Sierra Nevada National Park. The name of the peak is in honor of
Aimé Bonpland
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (; 22 August 1773 – 11 May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scientific results of their ex ...
, although he never visited the Venezuelan Andes.
The glaciers located in the Bonpland were the result from
Merida glaciation in the Pleistocene. By 2011 they had all disappeared.
References
* Jahn A, ''Observaciones glaciológicas de los Andes venezolanos''. Cult. Venez. 1925, 64:265-80
Bonpland
Glaciers of Venezuela
Geography of Mérida (state)
Páramos
Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela)
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