Nevado Juncal

Juncal
Highest point
Elevation5,953 m (19,531 ft) [1]
Prominence833 metres (2,733 ft)
Parent peakNevado Plomo
Coordinates33°3′10.44″S 070°6′07.20″W 
Geography
Juncal
Argentina / Chile
CountriesArgentina and Chile
Parent rangeCentral Andes, Andes
Climbing
First ascent17/1/1911 - Federico Reichert (Germany) , Robert Helbling (Germany) and Damasio Beíza (Chile).

Location

Nevado Juncal is a mountain at the border of Argentina and Chile, at the head of Aconcagua Val. It has a height of 5,953 metres (19,531 ft). It's located at La Yesera, Los Andes Department, Valparaíso Region, at the Central Andes. The mountain hosts several glaciers including Juncal Norte and Juncal Sur Glacier.[2]

Elevation

It has an official height of 5965 meters[3]Based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM2 (5940m[4]), ASTER (5918m[5]), TanDEM-X(5905m with voids[6]), Juncal is about 5953 meters above sea level.[7][8]

The height of the nearest key col is 5120 meters,[9] so its prominence is 833 meters. Juncal is listed as subgroup or massif, based on the Dominance system [10] and its dominance is 13.99%. Its parent peak is Nevado Plomo and the Topographic isolation is 6.6 kilometers. [11] This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.[12]

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Juncal Sur Glacier
TypeMountain glacier
LocationChile

References
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  2. "Nevado Juncal". Aventuras Patagonicas. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  3. "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  4. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,. "Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission - Filled Data V2". Retrieved 12 April 2020.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  5. "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  6. TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  7. "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  8. "Juncal". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  9. "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  10. "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  11. "Juncal". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  12. ap507. "Academic and adventurer describes the incredible task of climbing and cataloguing one of the most remote regions of the South American Andes mountains — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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