Pico Humboldt

Pico Humboldt

Infobox Mountain
Name = Pico Humboldt
Photo = Humboldt-peak.jpg
Caption = Pico Humboldt as seen from the Coromoto-La Verde trail.
Elevation = convert|4940|m|ft|0
Location = Mérida, Venezuela
Range = Sierra Nevada, Andes
Prominence =
Coordinates = coord|8|33|N|70|59|W|type:mountain|display=inline,title
Topographic

Type=|Age=
First ascent = 1911 by Alfredo Jahn| Easiest route = Laguna del Suero

Pico Humboldt is Venezuela's second highest peak, at 4,940 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 Bonpland", and the surrounding páramos are protected by the Sierra Nevada National Park.

Glaciers

The summit is surrounded by the Eastern Coromoto glacier and the Sievers glacier, the two largest out of the five glaciers remaining in the country (the other three smaller glaciers are on Pico Bolívar). The glaciers on Humboldt Peak (as most tropical glaciers) have been receding fast since the 1970s and they are forecast to melt completely in a couple of decades.

References

*Jahn A, "Observaciones glaciológicas de los Andes venezolanos". Cult. Venez. 1925, 64:265-80


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