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Pico Humboldt

Pico Humboldt

Mountain peak in Venezuela

This article is about the Venezuelan Peak. For the Colorado fourteener, see Humboldt Peak (Colorado).

Pico Humboldt is Venezuela's second highest peak, at 4,925 metres above sea level. It is located in the Sierra Nevada de Merida, in the Venezuelan Andes of (Mérida State). The peak, its sister peak Pico Bonpland, and the surrounding páramos are protected by the Sierra Nevada National Park. The mountain is named after German explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.

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Glaciers

The summit was formerly surrounded by glaciers, including the two largest out of the four glaciers remaining in the country (the other two smaller glaciers were on Pico Bolívar). The glaciers on Humboldt Peak (as most tropical glaciers) have been receding fast since the 1970s. By 2009, all but one glacier, the Humboldt Glacier, had vanished. In 2019, the remaining glacier covers an area of 0.1 km2 and was forecast to melt completely within a decade:[1][2][3] in May 2024, the Humboldt Glacier was officially downgraded to an ice field, no longer considered a glacier.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Braun, Carsten; Bezada, Maximiliano (January 2013). "The History and Disappearance of Glaciers in Venezuela". Journal of Latin American Geography. doi:10.1353/lag.2013.0.
  2. [2]
    Rodríguez, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez and María Fernanda (2019-01-15). "Watching Venezuela's Last Glacier Disappear". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
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    Mandel, Kyla (2018-11-26). "Venezuela's last glacier is about to disappear". National Geographic. Archived from the original on November 26, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  4. [4]
    The Guardian, 8 May 2024 : Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field.
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