Pico Humboldt
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| Pico Humboldt | |
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 Pico Humboldt as seen from the Coromoto-La Verde trail. |
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| Elevation | 4,940 metres (16,207 feet) |
| Location | Mérida, Venezuela |
| Range | Sierra Nevada, Andes |
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| First ascent | 1911 by Alfredo Jahn |
| Easiest route | Laguna del Suero |
This article is about the Venezuelan Peak. For the Colorado fourteener, see Humboldt Peak, Colorado.
Pico Humboldt is Venezuela's second highest peak, at 4,940 meters above the sea level. It is located in the Sierra Nevada Range, Venezuelan Andes (Mérida State). The peak, its sister peak Pico Bonpland, and their surrounding páramos are protected by the Sierra Nevada National Park.
[edit] Glaciers
The summit is surrounded by the Eastern Coromoto glacier and the Sievers glacier, the two largest out of the five glaciers remaining in the country (the other three are at Pico Bolívar). The glaciers on Humboldt Peak (as most tropical glaciers) have been receding fast since the 1970s and they are forecasted to melt completely in a couple of decades.
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[edit] References
- Jahn A, Observaciones glaciológicas de los Andes venezolanos. Cult. Venez. 1925, 64:265-80
