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Cerro el Muerto (sometimes El Muerto fully translated as ''The Dead One'' ") is a range or area at the border of Argentina and Chile. It has a height of . It's located at Atacama Region, Copiapó Province, at the Puna de Atacama. It only receives a handful of climbing attempts every year and most are from the Chilean side.Elevation
It has an official height of 6488 meters, however, based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models,SRTM
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Ea ...
(6490m), ASTER (6488m), SRTM
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Ea ...
filled with ASTER (6490m), TanDEM-X(6533m), and also a handheld GPS survey by Maximo Kausch
Maximo Kausch (born March 1981 in Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-lar ...
on 12/2010 (6519 meters), Muerto is about 6510 meters above sea level.
The height of the nearest key col
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
is 4414 meters. so its prominence is 2096 meters. Muerto is listed as range or area, based on the Dominance system and its dominance is 32.2%. Its parent peak is Ojos del Salado and the Topographic isolation is 8 kilometers. This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.
See also
* List of mountains in ArgentinaExternal links
Elevation information about Muerto
References
Volcanoes of Catamarca Province Mountains of Argentina Mountains of Chile Argentina–Chile border International mountains of South America Volcanoes of Atacama Region Six-thousanders of the Andes {{Atacama-geo-stub