Nevado Juncal

The Juncal (Spanish: Cerro Juncal or Nevado Juncal ) is, according to recent surveys 5953 m high mountain on the border between Chile's Región de Valparaíso and the Argentine province of Mendoza, good 25 kilometers south of the border pass Paso de la Cumbre.

Location

The Juncalmassiv forms a roughly two -mile wall just below the 6,000 -meter mark, which opens into a wide arc to the north. After the northeastern main peak with an altitude of 5953 m in clockwise

  • The South Summit (position 33.051756 - 70.094245910 ) with 5910 m
  • The Chilean summit (southwest summit, Spanish Cumbre Chilena, location - 33.05226 - 70.1014925953 ), the zoom range with a height of 5953 m to the main summit, and
  • Columna (also Nevado de los Leones, North West Summit, location - 33.038266 - 70.1128225660 ) with 5660 m.

The lowest point between the main summit and the Chilean summit still has a height of 5821 m.

In front of the massif northwest los Leones is the striking de Alto ( 5380 m, location - 33.008154 - 70.1356925660 ).

The Juncalmassiv is heavily glaciated. Clockwise, starting from the east cover the following glaciers of the massif:

  • Glaciar Juncal Segundo Este and
  • Glaciar Juncal Primero Este, both of which drain into the Río Plomo,
  • Glaciar Juncal Sur, which is the solid mass with an approximate length of 15 km the longest glacier and drains into the Río Olivares,
  • Glaciar Los Leones in the northwest,
  • Glaciar Juncal Norte, which drains into the valley of the Río Juncal and
  • Glaciar Juncal Colgante Norte, which flows north into the Valley Monos de Agua.

The mountain is located on the Chilean side of the Parque Andino Juncal, which has been protected since May 22, 2010 as a wetland under the Ramsar Convention. On the Argentinian side, immediately followed by a large park under provincial administration.

Height

Until recently (about 2010) a height of 6110 m has been specified for the mountain. This amount goes back to Robert Helbling, who made the first measurements of the massif 1908-1918 and which was confirmed in 1956 by Luis Lliboutry and its description of the central Andes. Lliboutrys altitude, however, apply to be imprecise, deviations from 500 meters to the current official maps are not uncommon. In addition, the summit region of Juncal the triangulation is difficult to access, and this area therefore long on the official maps remained unkotiert. Today, the Chilean IGM is a height of 5953 m, the Argentine IGN at a height of 5965 m.

History

Name

The Spanish word means Juncal bins greenhouse. The valley north of Juncal is drained by the Río Juncal and has been noted for its flora under protection.

First ascent

The first ascent was made on January 17, 1911 by the German - Argentinean Federico Reichert and Swiss Robert Helbling with the Chileans Damasio Beíza that the summit of the Argentine east side of the valley of the Río Plomo, on the Glaciar Juncal Segundo Este ( Second Eastern Juncalgletscher ) and finally reached the north ridge.

The second ascent was made on March 3, 1934 by the Italian Gabriele Boccalatte and Piero Zanetti from the north via the Glaciar Juncal Norte. The third ascent in 1951 by an expedition of the DAV Santiago on the Glaciar Juncal Norte Colgante from the Valle Monos de Agua, again from the north.

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