Monte San Valentin, also known as Monte San Clemente, is the highest mountain in
Chile
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an
Patagonia
Patagonia () is a geographical region that includes parts of Argentina and Chile at the southern end of South America. The region includes the southern section of the Andes mountain chain with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers ...
and the highest mountain south of
37°S outside Antarctica. It stands at the north end of the
North Patagonian Icefield.
Monte San Valentin can be climbed from Lago Leones, to the south east, or from
Laguna San Rafael, to the west. The ascent is long and is particularly subject to bad weather.
There is some confusion about the elevation. It was originally estimated at 3,876m by Nordenskjold in 1921 but later thought to be 4,058m. The latter is the most commonly quoted elevation and is quoted here. A French group that climbed the San Valentin in 1993 included two surveyors, who calculated an elevation of 4,080±20 m by using a
GPS
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. In 2001 a Chilean group measured 4,070±40 m, also using GPS.
SRTM
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and
ASTER GDEM
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a Japanese remote sensing instrument onboard the Terra (satellite), Terra satellite launched by NASA in 1999. It has been collecting data since February 2000.
ASTER ...
data also support an elevation in excess of 4,000 metres.
However, Chilean IGM mapping gives only 3,910 metres. ChIGM maps are usually accurate and reliable, but the summit is uniformly white, which may have created problems for the cartographers.
See also
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List of mountains in the Andes
A sortable list of mountains above 4,000 metres in the South American Andes.
Considerations
The list is an incomplete list of mountains in the Andes. There are many named and unnamed peaks in the Andes that are currently not included in this lis ...
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Laguna San Rafael National Park
Laguna San Rafael National Park () is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it covers an area of and includes the Nor ...
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Mount Hudson
Hudson Volcano (, , or ) is the most active volcano in the southern part of the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes Mountains in Chile, having erupted most recently in 2011. It was formed by the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate under the ...
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Cerro Castillo
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Cerro Castillo is a jagged rocky peak located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile, within the Cerro Castillo National Reserve, Cerro Castillo National Park. ''Castillo'' means ''castle'' in Spanish, and the st ...
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Cerro Arenales
Cerro Arenales is a heavily ice-covered mountain located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile, within Laguna San Rafael National Park. It towers over the southern part of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. Arenal ...
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List of Ultras of South America
Notes
References
*John Biggar, ''The Andes, A Guide for Climbers'', Andes, 3rd edition, 2005,
External links
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el monte de sanvalentin es muy amoroso
Mountains of Aysén Region
Four-thousanders of the Andes
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