Cerro La Mesa or La Mesa or Cerro de la Mesa is a mountain in the
Cordillera de la Ramada
The Cordillera de la Ramada (Spanish language, 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 (Argentina), San Juan province of Arge ...
range of the
Andes, in
Argentina. It has a height of . La Mesa means table in Spanish. The name of the mountain comes its flat and long summit ridge (there are six summits, the 6200m being the highest). Despite the dry climate of the area, there are significant glaciers flowing down the southern and the eastern flank of the mountain. Its slopes are within the administrative boundaries of the Argentinean city of
Calingasta, Province of
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
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* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
.
First Ascent
La Mesa was first climbed by Hans Schöenberger (Austria) in January 1, 1971.
The polish 1934 expedition (Viktor Ostrowski, Jan Kazimierz Dorawski, S. Osiecki, J. Narkienwicz-Jodko, J. Dorawsky, S. Daszynski and A. Karpinski) summited a 'southeast pinnacle' February 10.
These were the words of the author, therefore not to the main summit 1.5 km away.
Elevation
Other data from available
digital elevation models:
SRTM
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yields 6158 metres,
ASTER
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6167 metres, ASTER filled 6161 metres,
TanDEM-X 6200 metres. The height of the nearest
key col
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 5225
meters, leading to a
topographic prominence of 955
meters.
La Mesa is considered a Mountain Massif according to the ''Dominance System''
and its dominance is 15.45%. Its
parent peak is
Mercedario and the
Topographic isolation is 9.5
kilometers.
Notes
External links
Elevation information about La MesaWeather Forecast at La Mesa
See also
*
List of mountains in the Andes
Mountains of Argentina
Six-thousanders of the Andes
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