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Pico Bonpland

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Location
  
Mérida, Venezuela

Mountain range
  
Andes

Elevation
  
4,883 m

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First ascent
  
1911 by Alfredo Jahn (was the same ascent to the Pico Humboldt as well)

Easiest route
  
By the excursionist route Pico Espejo-Mucuy.

Parent ranges
  
Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Andes

Similar
  
Pico Humboldt, Pico La Concha, Pico El León, Pico Bolívar, Pico El Toro

Pico Bonpland is Venezuela's third highest peak, at 4,883 metres above sea level. It is located in the Sierra Nevada de Merida, in the Venezuelan Andes of (Mérida State). The peak with its sister peak Pico Humboldt, and the surrounding páramos are protected by the Sierra Nevada National Park. The name of the peak is in honor to Aimé Bonpland, although he never visited the Venezuelan Andes.

Map of Pico Bonpland, M%C3%A9rida, Venezuela

The glaciers located in the Bonpland were the result from Merida glaciation in the Pleistocene. By 2011 they had all disappeared.

References

Pico Bonpland Wikipedia


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