Pico Polaco
Highest point
Elevation5,950 m (19,520 ft)[1]
Prominence495 metres (1,624 ft)
Parent peakLa Mesa
Coordinates32°1′43.32″S 070°6′34.19″W / 32.0287000°S 70.1094972°W / -32.0287000; -70.1094972
Geography
Pico Polaco is located in Argentina
Pico Polaco
Pico Polaco
Argentina
CountryArgentina
Parent rangeCordillera de la Ramada, Andes
Climbing
First ascent21204 - Antonio Beorchia Nigris (Italia) and Edgardo Yacante (Argentina)

Pico Polaco (lit. Polish Peak) is a mountain located in Argentina with a height of 5,950 metres (19,521 ft). It is located at Calingasta Department, San Juan Province, at the Cordillera de la Ramada.

Name

The name was given to the peak following the first documented attempt at first ascent, after the Polish climbers (who were the first explorers) in honor of their achievements within the Cordillera de la Ramada. The Polish expedition referred to the mountain as Innominata ("Unnamed") or "Cerro N".[2]

Location

It is located at Calingasta Department, San Juan Province, at the Cordillera de la Ramada.

Elevation

It has an official height of 5965 meters[3] Based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM (5936m[4]), SRTM2 (5920m[5]), ASTER (5913m[6]), SRTM filled with ASTER (5920m[6]), TanDEM-X(5827m[7]), Pico Polaco is about 5950 meters above sea level.[8][1]

The height of the nearest key col is 5455 meters,[8] so its prominence is 495 meters. Pico Polaco is listed as mountain, based on the Dominance system [9] and its dominance is 8.32%. Its parent peak is La Mesa and the topographic isolation is 4 kilometers.[1] This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.[10]

First ascent

The first attempt to climb the mountain was by a Polish expedition in 1934, abandoned due to bad weather and one of the team members' foot injury.[2][11] The first successful ascent was done in 1958 by Argentine climbers A. Beorchia and E. Yacante.[12]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Pico Polaco". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 Marek, Aneta (2016). "Andy jako rejon eksploracji górskiej Polaków do 1989 r." (PDF). Słupskie Prace Geograficzne (in Polish). 13: 83–104. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "IGN Argentina". IGN Argentina. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  4. ↑ USGS, EROS Archive. "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  5. ↑ NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission - Filled Data V2". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  6. 1 2 "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  7. ↑ TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  10. ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Daszynski, S. W. (1934). "A Polish Expedition to the High Andes". The Geographical Journal. 84 (3): 215–223. doi:10.2307/1785755. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1785755.
  12. ↑ The American Alpine Journal. American Alpine Club. 1962. p. 443.

See also


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