Chacaltaya
Sign in to saveChacaltaya (Mollo language for "bridge of winds" or "winds meeting point", Aymara for "cold road") is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes. Its elevation is . Chacaltaya's glacier — which was as old as 18,000 years — had an area of in 1940, which had been reduced to in 2007 and was completely gone by 2009. Half of the meltdown, as measured by volume, took place before 1980. The final meltdown after 1980, due to missing precipitation and the warm phase of El Niño, resulted in the glacier's disappearance in
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Chacaltaya
- Mountain.photo
- Chacaltaya summit Oct 2012.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Chacaltaya peak, October 2012
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 5421
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 658
- Mountain.map
- Bolivia
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location of Chacaltaya in Bolivia
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.location
- La Paz Department, Bolivia
- Mountain.range
- Cordillera Real, Andes
- Mountain.type
- Fold mountain
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Walk up
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- Ski area
- Retreat of Chacaltaya glacier
- Observatory
- Climate
- See also
- References
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Chacaltaya (Mollo language for "bridge of winds" or "winds meeting point", Aymara for "cold road") is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes. Its elevation is . Chacaltaya's glacier — which was as old as 18,000 years — had an area of in 1940, which had been reduced to in 2007 and was completely gone by 2009. Half of the meltdown, as measured by volume, took place before 1980. The final meltdown after 1980, due to missing precipitation and the warm phase of El Niño, resulted in the glacier's disappearance in 2009. The glacier was located about from La Paz, near Huayna Potosí mountain.
==Ski area== thumb|left|Enhanced image of Chacaltaya ski resort, November 2007 The glacier on Chacaltaya served as Bolivia's only ski resort. It was the world's highest lift-served ski area and the northernmost in South America.