List of mountains in Argentina
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This a list of mountains situated in Argentina, South America. The list also shows the height of each mountain.


Mountains

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Aconcagua Aconcagua () is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the List of highest mountains on Earth, highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in the ...
(Mendoza) 6,962 m ** Nevado El Plomo 6,070 m ** Cerro Ameghino approx. 5,940 m *
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, ...
(Catamarca) 6,893 m **
Tres Cruces Sur Nevado Tres Cruces is a massif of volcanic origin in the Andes Mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile. It has two main summits, Tres Cruces Sur at and Tres Cruces Centro at and a third minor summit, Tres Cruces Norte . Tres Cruces Sur i ...
6,748 m ** Cazadero 6,658 m ** El Muerto 6,488 m ** Cerro Nacimiento 6,436 m ** Cerro Veladero 6,436 m **
Cerro El Cóndor Cerro El Cóndor is a stratovolcano in Argentina. Cerro El Cóndor is a remote peak in the Argentine Puna de Atacama. As such it was probably the last major 6000m+ peak in the Andes to be climbed, with the summit reaching a height of . The vol ...
(also ''Volcán Sarmiento'') 6,414 m ** Cerro Vallecitos 6,168 m ** Tres Quebradas (also ''Los Patos'') 6,239 m ** Cerro Medusa 6,120 m ** Colorados 6,080 m **
Cerro El Fraile Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". Toponyms ;Bolivia: * Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" containing silver ore near Potosi, Bolivia ;Brazil: *Cerro Branco, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul *Cerro Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipa ...
6,061 m ** Volcán del Viento 6,028 m ** Cerro San Francisco 6,018 m *
Monte Pissis Monte Pissis is an extinct volcano on the border of La Rioja and Catamarca provinces, Argentina, from the Chilean border. The mountain is the third-highest in the Western Hemisphere, and is located about north of Aconcagua. Monte Pissis is nam ...
(La Rioja) 6,795 m *
Cerro Bonete Cerro Bonete is a mountain in the north of the province of La Rioja, Argentina, near the provincial border with Catamarca. Its summit is 6,759 m above mean sea level, making it the fifth-highest separate mountain in the Americas (after Aconcag ...
(La Rioja) 6,759 m *
Llullaillaco Llullaillaco () is a dormant stratovolcano at the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile (Antofagasta Region). It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of tall volcanic peaks on a high plateau close to the Atacama Desert, one of the dri ...
(Salta) 6,723 m **
Socompa Socompa is a large stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile with an elevation of metres. Part of the Chilean and Argentine Andean Volcanic Belt (AVB), it is part of the Central Volcanic Zone, one of the various segments of the AVB. Th ...
6,051 m *
Mercedario Cerro Mercedario is the highest peak of the Cordillera de la Ramada range and the eighth-highest mountain of the Andes. It is located 100 km to the north of Aconcagua, in the Argentine province of San Juan. It was first ascended in 1934 ...
(San Juan) 6,720 m **
Cerro Ramada Cerro Ramada is a mountain in the Cordillera de la Ramada range of the Andes, 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.S. W. Daszynski, 'A Pol ...
6,384 m ** Cerro La Mesa 6,230 m *
Incahuasi Incahuasi (; possibly from Quechua: ''inka'' Inca, ''wasi'' house) is a volcanic mountain in the Andes of South America. It lies on the border of the Catamarca Province of Argentina and the Atacama Region of Chile. Incahuasi has a summit elevat ...
(Catamarca) 6,621 m *
Tupungato Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in the Americas, is a massive Andean lava dome dating to Pleistocene times. It lies on the border between the Chilean Metropolitan Region (near a major international highway about east of Santiago) and th ...
(Mendoza) 6,570 m ** Cerro Alto San Juan 6,148 m ** Cerro Negro Pabellón 6,070 m ** Cerro Polleras 5,993m *
Antofalla Antofalla is a Miocene-Pliocene volcano in Argentina's Catamarca Province. It is part of the volcanic segment of the Andes in Argentina, and it is considered to be part of the Central Volcanic Zone, one of the volcanic zones of the Andes. Anto ...
(Salta) 6,440 m *
Cachi Cachi may refer to: * Cachi, Argentina *Cachi Department, Argentina * Cachi, Costa Rica *Lake Cachi, Costa Rica See also * Cachy, a commune in France * Kachi (disambiguation) Kachi, Kacchi, Kachhi or Katchi may refer to: Places in Iran * Kachi ...
(''Nevado de Cachi'') 6,380 m **
Cerro Quemado Cerro Quemado (Burned Mountain) is a mountain in the Andes Mountains of Argentina. Found in the Atacama Plateau along with about 12 others (such as Cerro Solo, Antofalla, Pular), it has a height of . See also * Sacabaya (volcano, aka 'Tamb ...
6,184 m * Reclus 6,335 m * Majadita 6,280 m **
Cerro Olivares Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". Toponyms ;Bolivia: * Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" containing silver ore near Potosi, Bolivia ;Brazil: *Cerro Branco, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul *Cerro Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipa ...
6,216 m *
Cerro Solo Cerro Solo is a large stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, west of Ojos del Salado with an elevation of metres. It consists of nine eruptive centers and is covered in light-colored rhyodacite pyroclastic flow deposits. Its ...
6,205 m *
Cerro El Toro 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. Its territory is within the Argentinean protection areas of Provincial Reserve San Guillermo. The Argenti ...
(San Juan) 6,168 m * Cerro Tortolas 6,160 m * Queva 6,140 m * Colangüil 6,122 m *
Marmolejo Volcán Marmolejo is a high Pleistocene stratovolcano in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located NNE of the active San José volcano, and is the southernmost -plus peak in the world. The Argentine portion is withi ...
6,108 m *
Medusa In Greek mythology, Medusa (; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress"), also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Those ...
6,130 m *
Nevado de Famatina Nevado de Famatina (also called Manuel Belgrano) is a peak in Argentina with an elevation of metres. It is the highest point of Sierra de Famatina. It is located within the territory of the Argentinean province of La Rioja. Its slopes are within ...
(also ''Cerro Belgrano'') 6,097 m *
Aracar Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has a main summit crater about in diameter which sometimes contains crater lakes, and a secondary crater. The volcano has formed, starting d ...
6,095m * Cerro Baboso (also ''Veladero N.E.'') approx. 6,070 m * Cerro Salin (''Salín'') 6,029 m *
Cerro Laguna Blanca Laguna Blanca is a peak in Argentina with an elevation of metres. Laguna Blanca is the highest peak of Sierra de Laguna Blanca, a range within Puna de Atacama, a high plateau of the Andes. It is within the protected area "Natural Provincial Reserv ...
6,012 m * Cerro Plata (Mendoza) 5,955 m * Cerro Chañi (Jujuy) approx. 5,930 m *
Galán Cerro Galán is a caldera in the Catamarca Province of Argentina. It is one of the largest exposed calderas in the world and forms part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, one of the three volcanic belts found in South America. One of ...
(Catamarca) 5,920 m


See also

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References

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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
Mountains A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher th ...
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...