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Cerro Ameghino

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Cerro Ameghino

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Ameghino is a mountain in Argentina. It has a height of 5,950 metres (19,521 ft).

It is located at Las Heras Department, Mendoza Province, at the Central Andes.

Based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM (5931m), SRTM2 (5935m), ASTER (5900m), SRTM filled with ASTER (5935m), TanDEM-X(5956m), Ameghino is about 5950 meters above sea level. The height of the nearest key col is 5365 meters, so its prominence is 585 meters. Ameghino is listed as mountain, based on the Dominance system and its dominance is 9.83%. Its parent peak is Aconcagua and the Topographic isolation is 4.4 kilometers. This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.

Elevation information about Ameghino Weather Forecast at Ameghino

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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