Cordillera de Lípez

Coordinates: 21°40′S 66°30′W / 21.667°S 66.500°W / -21.667; -66.500
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Cerro Lípez, 5,929 metres (19,452 ft)
a section of the Cordillera de Lípez in the extreme south of Bolivia at the boundary with Argentina

The Cordillera de Lípez is a

Cordillera Occidental, creating the southern boundary of the Bolivian Altiplano
.

The highest peak is

Soniquera
(5,899 m) (sometimes misspelled as Soreguera); and Tinte (5,849 m) which is on the Bolivian-Argentine border. Despite the high elevations, there is no current glacier activity in the Cordillera de Lípez, just some semi-permanent snow fields.

Notes

  1. ^ Brain, Y. "Climbs and Expeditions: Bolivia", American Alpine Journal (1999) p. 323.

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21°40′S 66°30′W / 21.667°S 66.500°W / -21.667; -66.500

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