Salcantay
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Salcantay, Salkantay or Sallqantay (in Quechua) is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range, part of the Peruvian Andes. It is located in the Cusco Region, about west-northwest of the city of Cusco. It is the 38th-highest peak in the Andes and the twelfth-highest in Peru. However, as a range highpoint in deeply incised terrain, it is the second most topographically prominent peak in the country, after Huascarán.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Salcantay
- Mountain.photo
- Salcantay Stevage.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- View from the southwest.
- Mountain.photo_size
- 240
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 6271
- Mountain.elevation_ref
- or
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.range
- Vilcabamba, Andes
- Mountain.location
- Cusco Region, Peru
- Mountain.map
- Peru
- Mountain.map_caption
- Peru
- Mountain.map_size
- 220
- Mountain.label_position
- left
- Mountain.first_ascent
- August 4, 1952, by Fred D. Ayres, David Michael Jr., W. V. Graham Matthews, George Irving Bell, Claude Kogan, M. Bernard Pierre
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Northeast ridge: technical glacier/snow/ice climb (French grade AD)
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 6271
- Image
- Humantay, 2023 (03).jpg
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- Salcantay
- topographic prominence
- 2540
- topographic isolation
- 151
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Salcantay, Salkantay or Sallqantay (in Quechua) is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range, part of the Peruvian Andes. It is located in the Cusco Region, about west-northwest of the city of Cusco. It is the 38th-highest peak in the Andes and the twelfth-highest in Peru. However, as a range highpoint in deeply incised terrain, it is the second most topographically prominent peak in the country, after Huascarán.
Salcantay's proximity to Machu Picchu makes trekking around it an alternative to the oversubscribed Inca Trail; this is known as the Salkantay trek.
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