The Cordillera de la Ramada ( Spanish for "Range of the Shelter", also called Cordón de la Ramada, in which ''cordón'' means 'ribbon' or 'rope', is a mountain range in the San Juan province of Argentina, forming part of the Andes. Its highest peak is Mercedario at . The first ascents of several peaks in the range were achieved by a Polish expedition of 1934 organized by the Tatra Society and led by

Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz, also known as Konstanty Narkiewicz-Jodko (1901–1963), was a Polish geophysicist who specialized in studying cosmic radiation. He was also a mountaineer, Arctic explorer, and balloonist. Geophysicist Jodko-Narkiewic ...

, whose party consisted of S. W. Daszynski, J. K. Dorawski, A. Karpinski, S. Osiecki, and W. Ostrowski. They climbed Mercedario,

Alma Negra Alma Negra is a mountain in the Cordillera de la Ramada range of the Andes Mountains, in Argentina. It has a height of . The first ascent of the mountain was by a Polish expedition in 1934, when a cairn was erected on the summit. In 2022, Austri ...

Pico Polaco Pico Polaco is a mountain located in Argentina with a height of . It is located at Calingasta Department, San Juan Province, at the Cordillera de la Ramada. Location It is located at Calingasta Department, San Juan Province, at the Cordiller ...

, La Mesa, and Cerro Ramada.Christabelle Dilks, ''Footprint Argentina''
p. 242
online The range is clearly visible from the better-known Aconcagua, the

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in the

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at , which is 100 km south of Mercedario, with the result that some of the many climbers who frequent Aconcagua move on to this range, although the area is less easy to access. Thanks to heavy cloud cover, the whole range has formed large glaciers which come to their lower ends at about . La Mesa, at , has especially huge glaciers and is not often climbed. Long ridge traverses are necessary to climb it. Temperatures can be extreme in summer and winter, but the climate is stable in the autumn and the spring.San Juan, tierra del sol
at argentina.ar, accessed 12 November 2010 (in Spanish) The best time of year for climbing in the range is from mid-December to the end of February. In the lower country beneath the range there are substantial mining industries, producing limestone, dolomite, bentonite, marble, aggregates,

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and feldspar, as well as silver and gold. Paleontologists have found fossils here of some of the earliest dinosaurs, including the

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and Eoraptor lunensis. Local wildlife includes condors, rheas, guanacos and vicuña.

Mountains

* Mercedario, , the eighth highest mountain of the Andes, known in Chile as El Ligua. * Ramada Norte, *

Cerro del Nacimiento Cerro del Nacimiento is an Andean volcano of the Cordillera de la Ramada range, in the Catamarca Province of Argentina. Its summit is above sea level. See also * List of mountains in the Andes A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List ...

, *

, Frédéric Hartemann, Robert Hauptman, ''The mountain encyclopedia: an A-Z compendium of more than 2,300 terms, concepts, ideas, and people'' (Scarecrow Press, 2005), p. 18: "Alma Negra 6290 m, 20636 ft... Pico Polaco 6001 m, 19688 ft" * Cerro Ramada, Argentina and Chile, Hartemann & Hauptman, ''op. cit.'', p. 255: "Cerro Ramada 6410 m, 21020 ft, Andes, Argentina & Chile" * La Mesa, *

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