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Huascarán

Huascarán is a high mountain massif in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca. Its southern summit reaches about 6,768 m above sea level.

Fast Facts

  • Locate it in the Peruvian Andes north of Lima.
  • It is Peru’s highest mountain, with extensive high-elevation ice and steep slopes.
  • The massif is not an extinct volcanic cone.
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