Cerro_El_Toro

Cerro El Toro

Cerro El Toro

Mountain in Argentina

Cerro El Toro is a mountain in the Andes located on the border between Argentina and Chile. It has an elevation of 6,168 m above sea level.[5] Its territory is within the Argentinean protection areas of Provincial Reserve San Guillermo. The Argentinean side is at San Juan province, commune of Iglesia.[6] Chilean side is at the Huasco province, and commune of Alto del Carmen.[7]

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First Ascents

Toro was first climbed by Incas in unknown dates.[8] A mummy was found on the Argentine slopes in 1964.[9] The first recorded post colonization ascent was by Antonio Beorchia Nigris (Italy), Jorge Enrique Varas and Sergio Fernandez (Argentina) in 02/26/1964.[4]

Elevation

It has an official height of 6160 meters.[10] Other data from available digital elevation models: SRTM yields 6148 metres,[11] ASTER 6122 metres[12] and TanDEM-X 6184 metres.[13] The height of the nearest key col is 4326 meters, leading to a topographic prominence of 1842 meters.[14] Toro is considered a Mountain Range according to the Dominance System [15] and its dominance is 29.86%. Its parent peak is Majadita and the Topographic isolation is 143.4 kilometers.[14]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Cumbres en Zona Fronteriza: Cerro El Toro" (in Spanish). Chilean Government - Difrol. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Argentina and Chile North: Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  3. [3]
    "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  4. [4]
    Beorchia Nigris. El Enigma de los Santuarios Indigenas de Alta Montaña. pp. 224–237.
  5. [5]
    Biggar, John (2020). The Andes a guide for climbers (5th ed.). Castle Douglas, Scotland. ISBN 978-0-9536087-7-5. OCLC 1260820889.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. [6]
    "Capas SIG | Instituto Geográfico Nacional". www.ign.gob.ar. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  7. [7]
    rbenavente. "Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional | SIIT | Mapas vectoriales". bcn.cl. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  8. [8]
    Ceruti, Maria Constanza (2015). "Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice". BioMed Research International. 2015: 439428. doi:10.1155/2015/439428. ISSN 2314-6133. PMC 4543117. PMID 26345378.
  9. [9]
    Schobinger, Juan (1964-12-01). "Discovery of an Indian Body on Cerro El Toro, Southern Andes". Current Anthropology. 5 (5): 419. doi:10.1086/200529. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 143969025.
  10. [10]
    "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  11. [11]
    USGS, EROS Archive. "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  12. [12]
    "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  13. [13]
    TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  14. [14]
    "Toro". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  15. [15]
    "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.


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