Cordillera Negra

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The Cordillera Negra (Spanish for Black Mountain Range ) is part of the Cordillera Occidental, one of three mountain ranges of the Andes Mountains in west-central Peru.

Size

The Cordillera Negra stretches over a distance of about 180 km and a width of 25-40 km in NNW-SSE direction, which extends its crest about 60 km from the coast line parallel to the Pacific coast. The Cordillera is part of the Andean Sierra, the inland stretches along behind the Costa narrow coastal desert of the South American part of the continent.

The Cordillera Negra has its highest elevations in Pico Rocarre ( 5,187 m), Rumi Cruz ( 5,020 m), Senal Cerro Rico ( 5006 m) to 9 ° 3 ' S, 77 ° 55' W - 9.0541666666667 77.9166666666675006 and Cerro Huancapeti ( 4,988 m) to 9 ° 46 ' S, 77 ° 32' W - 9.7655555555556 77.52754988, which is also the highest mountain pass of the Cordillera Negra is, the Huancapeti pass at an altitude of 4,680 meters above the sea.

Location

In the north and east of the Cordillera is limited by the Río Santa, the inland Cordillera Negra accompanied full-length and then crosses the coastal mountains at 8 ° 45 ' S.

In the south of the Cordillera at 10 ° 30 ' by the Río Pativilca is completed. In the central part of the Cordillera, near the city of Huaraz the Casma River breaks through the ridge.

The Río Santa with the fertile valley of the Callejon de Huaylas separates the Cordillera Negra of the Cordillera Blanca in the east, a year-round snow-capped mountain range with peaks up to 6,768 m. The Cordillera Negra is in contrast to the Cordillera Blanca largely free of snow, although it rises to a height of 5,000 m, and this fact owes its name. The Cordillera Negra holds back the warm air currents of the coastal plain, so that the snow level will drop in the Cordillera Blanca up to 5,400 m.

Population

Administratively are the Cordillera Negra and the Cordillera Blanca to almost 100 % in the Peruvian region of Ancash.

In the 1960s, the Guitarrero Cave ( Cueva del Guitarrero ) was discovered on the northern edge of the Cordillera Negra, contained the bones of mastodons and llamas and be based on the found tools and items of clothing to a human habitation at the time of close 10950-10230 years ago.

Today the Cordillera Negra is sparsely populated with largely indigenous population that lives of over 4,000 meters from the cultivation of wheat, corn and oats to heights. The Cordillera is rich in mineral resources such as gold, silver and copper.

  • Mountains in South America
  • Mountains in Peru
  • Geography (Peru )
Ancash Region
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