Cerro Heim is a mountain in the

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. It is located in Santa Cruz Province,

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, and is part of Los Glaciares National Park. Prior to the 1998 agreement between Argentina and

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, this hill was considered a border landmark by Chile and was established as a landmark by the surveyors of both countries in the 1898 protocol. It stands at an altitude of .

History

After the signing of the 1881 Treaty between Argentina and Chile, the boundary in the area was defined in 1898 by the boundary surveyors, Francisco Pascasio Moreno from Argentina and

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from Chile. Huemul was declared a border landmark. The surveyors had no differences in the area between Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Stokes, unlike other territories that were subject to arbitration in the 1902 arbitral award. The boundary was defined by the following mountain landmarks and their natural continuity: Mount Fitz Roy, Torre, Huemul, Campana,

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, Heim, Mayo, and Stokes (nowadays Cervantes). In 1998, the "Agreement between the Republic of Chile and the Republic of Argentina to determine the boundary line from Mount Fitz Roy to Cerro Daudet" was signed, defining section A and a small part of section B, with the area between Fitz Roy and the Murallón still pending.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heim, Cerro Mountains of Argentina Landforms of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Two-thousanders of the Andes