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Cerro el Muerto (sometimes El Muerto fully translated as ''The Dead One'' ") is a range or area at the border of

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and

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. It has a height of . It's located at Atacama Region,

Copiapó Province Copiapó Province ( es, Provincia de Copiapó) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III). Its capital is the city of Copiapó. Geography and demography According to the 2012 census by the National Statistics Instit ...

, at the

Puna de Atacama The Puna de Atacama or Atacama Plateau''Atacama Plateau''
article at the ''

elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Ver ...

provided by the available

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, SRTM (6490m),

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(6488m), SRTM filled with

(6490m),

TanDEM-X TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) is the name of TerraSAR-X's twin satellite, a German Earth observation satellite using SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) - a modern radar imaging technology. Implemented in a Public-P ...

(6533m), and also a handheld GPS survey by Maximo Kausch on 12/2010 (6519 meters), Muerto is about 6510 meters above sea level. The height of the nearest key col is 4414

meters The metre ( British spelling) or meter ( American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit , from the Greek noun , "measure"), symbol m, is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), though its p ...

. so its

prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

is 2096

. Muerto is listed as range or area, based on the Dominance system and its dominance is 32.2%. Its

parent peak In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

Ojos del Salado Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth and the highest peak in Chile. The upper reaches of Ojos del Salado consist of several overlapping lava domes, ...

and the

Topographic isolation The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mounta ...

is 8

kilometers The kilometre ( SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for ). It is now the measurement unit used for ex ...

. This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014. El Muerto 02-2020

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Elevation information about MuertoWeather Forecast at Muerto

References

Volcanoes of Catamarca Province Mountains of Argentina Mountains of Chile Argentina–Chile border International mountains of South America Volcanoes of Atacama Region Six-thousanders of the Andes {{Atacama-geo-stub

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