Pico Bonpland is Venezuela's fourth-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). The peak with its sister peak
Pico Humboldt, and the surrounding
páramo
Páramo () may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountain Range, South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". A narrower ...
s are protected by the
Sierra Nevada National Park. The name of the peak is in honor of
Aimé Bonpland, 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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